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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 217 Jahre, 1 Monat, 22 Tage oder 79.309 Tage alt.

Geboren am 27.02.1807 in Portland/Maine
Gestorben am 24.03.1882 in Cambridge
Sternzeichen: ♓ Fische

• Each morning sees some task begin. / Each evening sees it close; / Something attempted, something done, / Has earned a night's repose.

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• Emigravit is the inscription on the tombstone where he lies: Dead he is not, but departed, - for the artist never dies.

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• Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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• For his heart was in his work, and the heart Giveth grace unto every Art.

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• From the waterfall he named her, Minnehaha, Laughing Water.

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• Giotto's tower, The lily of Florence blossoming in stone.

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

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• He is dead, the sweet musician! He the sweetest of all singers! He has gone from us for ever, He has moved a little nearer To the Master of all music, To the Master of all singing! O my brother, Chibiabos!

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• He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

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• How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

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• I heard the bells on Christmas Day, / Their old familiar carols play, / And wild and sweet / The words repeat / Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

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• I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre!

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• I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-rides tossing free; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voiceof that wayward song Is singing and saying still: 'A boy's will is the wind's will And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.'

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• I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where.

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• If Spring came but once a century instead of once a year or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.

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• 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.

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• If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

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• In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

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• Into each life some rain must fall; some days must be dark and dreary.

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• It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

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