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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

• This is the forest primeval.

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• Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

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• Thy fate is the common fate of all; into each life some rain must fall.

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• To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

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• Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

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• Truly, this world can get on without us, if we would but think so.

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• Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!

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• Under a 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.

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• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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• When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

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• 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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• Why don't you speak for yourself, John?

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• With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground.

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• Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

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• Donne ce que tu as. Pour certains, c'est mieux que tu n'oses l'espérer.

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• La renommée ne vient que lorsqu'on la mérite; et alors, elle est aussi inévitable que le destin, car elle est le destin.

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• Personne n'est si pauvre qu'il ne possède rien dont on ne puisse faire cadeau.

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• Une seule conversation à table avec un sage vaut mieux que dix ans passés dans les livres.

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