Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellowwas an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside Poets...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 February 1807
CityPortland, ME
CountryUnited States of America
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As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.