Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet

Lived from: 1807 - 1882

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 27 february 1807 Died: 24 march 1882

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  • Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait - not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
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  • Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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  • For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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  • Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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  • How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
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  • However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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  • I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
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  • I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.
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  • I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.
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  • If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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  • If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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  • In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
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  • In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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  • Into each life some rain must fall.
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  • It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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  • It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
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  • It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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  • It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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