Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes and Sayings
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“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”
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“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
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“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.”
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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
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“They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.”
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“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”
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“To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.”
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“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.”
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“All things must change To something new, to something strange.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow