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Letter "H" » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
«Our ingress into the world / Was naked and bare; / Our progress through the world / Is trouble and care.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
«Under the spreading chestnut tree / The village smithy stands; / The smith, a mighty man is he, / With large and sinewy hands; / And the muscles of his brawny arms / Are strong as iron bands.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
«Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.»
«The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain»
«His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can; And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
«Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
«You would attain to the divine perfection, And yet not turn your back upon the world»
«The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.»
«When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
«I know a maiden fair to see, / Take care! / She can both false and friendly be, / Beware! Beware!»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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