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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Resolve and thou art free.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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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