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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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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In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
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That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like that apple tree, I try to grow a new little wood each year.
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Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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I shot an arrow into the air,It fell to earth, I knew not where (The Arrow and the Song)
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Far asunder, on separate coasts, the Acadians landed, ... Scattered were they, like flakes of snow . . . friendless, homeless, hopeless, they wandered from city to city.
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Between the dark and the daylight, / When the night is beginning to lower, / Comes a pause in the day's occupations, / That is known as the Children's Hour.
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Singing the Hundredth Psalm, the grand old Puritan anthem.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.