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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
Born: Feb 27, 1807
Died: Mar 24, 1882
All Things Great Heart Life Man You
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Great Men Heights Slept Great Men Attained Reached Were Upward While Toiling Flight Companions Sudden Night Kept
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Best Nature Rain Thing Raining
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
Sad Man World Every Cold Secret Only He Call Sorrows Knows His Times Often Which Every Man
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life Silence Speak Darkness Ocean Other Distant Signal Only Voice Look Another Pass Passing Ships Again Then Shown Each Night
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Character Simplicity Style All Things Excellence Supreme Manner Things
Into each life some rain must fall. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life Rain Fall Must Some Each
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sad Life History Man Suffering Enemies Enough Secret Our Find Could Hostility Disarm Sorrow Read Should Each
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love Better Cold Out Cloak Than Keeps
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wise Man Conversation Wise Man Learning Better Single Books Table Ten Ten Years Mere Study Years Than Across
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time Great Men Our Our Lives Great Men Remind Footprints Make Leave Sublime Departing Behind Sands Us Lives
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Day Sky Stars Invisible Filled
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Grief Speak Like Does
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Character Simplicity Style Manners All Things Excellence Supreme Things
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 and with a manly heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Future Heart Fear Past Manly Meet Back Shadowy Wisely Look Without Go Improve Again Forth Thine Present
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life Service Dreams Man Charity Active Consists Visions Willing Dreaming Seeing
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. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Success Great You Perseverance Wake Up Somebody Long Enough Only Knock Sure Wake Up Loud Element Gate
For 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
Day Age Youth Opportunity Sky Stars Though Dress Fades Invisible Another Itself Than Less Evening Filled Away Twilight
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time You Takes Wrong Does Than Did Explain Less Less Time Why Right Thing
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 ground like water, can never be gathered together. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life Together Heart Water Word Careless Secret Spilt Some Shaken Emotion Never Drops Like Depths Full Ground Moments Chance Pebble Gathered
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Morning Earned Some Something Sees Attempted Close Begun Task Repose Done Each Evening Each Morning Night
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pain Stay Feel Parting Go Behind Who Suffer
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Judge Others Ourselves Feel Doing Done While Capable Us
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Heart Words Torn Mended Bruise Soon Child Jacket Hard Hard Words
The human voice is the organ of the soul. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Soul Organ Voice Human Human Voice
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Passion Pretend Scar Wounds Recovered Foolish Disappointed Always Leave Fully
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Others Respects Wears Mail He Safe Pierce Himself None Coat
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