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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) 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.

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Quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Resolve and thou art free.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The highest result of education is tolerance.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Age is opportunity no less/ Than youth itself, though in another dress,/ And as the evening twilight fades away/ The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow