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Letter "H" » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
«If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
«But the father answered never a word. / A frozen corpse was he.»
«And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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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.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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«Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay»
«Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice»
«No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own»
«The strength of criticism lies only in the weakness of the thing criticized»
«Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
«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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