For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTherefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it i…
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the g…