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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

«Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | About: Soul | Keywords: disaster, heat
«The world loves a spice of wickedness»
«The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | About: Firmness | Keywords: firmness
«Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.»
«Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.»
«Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overhead.»
«In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer»
«Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.»
«I stood on the bridge at midnight, / As the clocks were striking the hour.»
«Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.»