American poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of the greatest poets in American history. Born in Portland, Maine, He became professor of Modern Languages in Harvard University; wrote "Hyperion," a romance in prose, and a succession of poems as well as lyrics, among the former "Evangeline," "The Golden Legend," "Hiawatha," and "Miles Standish"
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In ourselves are triumph and defeat. Go to Quote / Comment
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 Go to Quote / Comment
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. Go to Quote / Comment
All things must change to something new, to something strange. Go to Quote / Comment
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. Go to Quote / Comment