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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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All things must change to something new, to something strange.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#city #enjoy #feel #great #great city

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#cloak #cold #keeps #love #out

All things come round to him who will but wait.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#come #him #round #things #wait

Evil is only good perverted.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#good #only #perverted

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#great #most #people #small #small things






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He pursued his literary goals by submitting poetry and prose to various newspapers and magazines partly due to encouragement from a professor named Thomas Cogswell Upham. When the younger Fanny was born on April 7 1847 Dr. His publiHenry Wadsworth Longfellowd poetry shows great versatility using anapestic and trochaic forms blank verse heroic couplets ballads and sonnets.

He has been criticized however for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses. His first wife Mary Potter died in 1835 after a miscarriage. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of the five Fireside Poets.

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