Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
United States
27 Feb 1807 // 24 Mar 1882
Poet
27 Feb 1807 // 24 Mar 1882
Poet
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
With useless endeavour
Forever, forever,
Is Sisyphus rolling
His stone up the mountain!
Forever, forever,
Is Sisyphus rolling
His stone up the mountain!
The Masque of Pandora. Chorus of the Eumenides
He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Standing with reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet!
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet!
Maidenhood
Music is the universal language of mankind... poetry their universal pastime and delight.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Essays