" Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

" You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

" Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

" The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

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" Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857 US poet (1807 – 1882)

" Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

" Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

" Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted,
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning
Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

" We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

" Learn to labour and to wait. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

" Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

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