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Schriftsteller, Übersetzer, Dramatiker, "The golden legend", "A Selection of Poems", "The divine Tragedy", Professor für Literatur an der Harvard-University (USA, 1807 - 1882).

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wäre heute 218 Jahre, 2 Monate, 2 Tage oder 79.685 Tage alt.

Geboren am 27.02.1807 in Portland/Maine
Gestorben am 24.03.1882 in Cambridge
Sternzeichen: ♓ Fische

• 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 takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

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• It takes less time to do something right than it does to explain what you did wrong.

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• It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company.

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• Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

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• Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

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• Let us then be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

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• Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

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• Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April in Seventy-five.

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• Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

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• Look not sorrowfully into the past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear, and with a manly heart.

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• Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

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• Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

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• Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice Triumphs.

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• Many men do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

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• Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

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• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled by great ambitions.

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

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• No man is so poor as to not own anything worth giving.

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• Not in the clamour of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

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