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
music headstone exquisite
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
heart reality world
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
nature conceited self
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
love beautiful character
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
patience waiting rounds
All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts
men made command
Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.
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Rule by patience, Laughing Water!