The highest result of education is tolerance.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets...

More quotations from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Resolve and thou art free.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Flowers… put up no resistance to attack, suffer evil rather than inflicting it, imitate carnal love, multiply without fighting, and die without complaining.… They have realized the dream of Buddha: to desire nothing, to tolerate everything, to be absorbed in oneself to the depths of the unconscious will.

—J. Rambosson

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Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

—Woodrow Wilson

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

—Ralph W. Sockman

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

—Kahlil Gibran

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