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Quotations by author » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
the most popular American Poet in the 19th century, 1807-1882
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
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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 and with a manly heart.
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Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger
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Looks the whole world in the face, / For he owes not any man.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought
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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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Manlike it is to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein, Christ like it is for sin to grieve, Godlike it is all sin to leave
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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings /as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
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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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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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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.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Music is the universal language of mankind
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Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man
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Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one
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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
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No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own
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Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.
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