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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
«We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet)
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Keywords:
climb,
climb on,
cloudy,
degrees,
feet,
have-not,
in degree,
more and more,
on the wing,
scale,
scaled,
scaling,
slow,
slowed,
slowing,
slows,
soar,
soared,
summits,
The Climb,
to that degree,
wings
«The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet)
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Keywords:
bridge,
bridged,
bridge over,
Bridge The,
bridging,
brief,
covered,
covered bridge,
covered up,
cover for,
cover up,
darkness,
grave,
graver,
gravest,
leading,
On the Cover,
O grave,
The Grave
«Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.»
«Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet)
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Keywords:
binds,
clasp,
clasped,
clasps,
each week,
golden,
Sunday,
The Week,
This Week,
volume,
week,
week after week
«All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet)
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Keywords:
About us,
Action The,
celestial,
crystal,
crystals,
crystal clear,
Flint,
flints,
masses,
materials,
shapeless,
the Crystal,
transparent
«Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet)
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Keywords:
break,
changing,
color,
coloring,
color in,
idle,
idled,
idling,
reverie,
reveries,
seashore,
sit,
sit in,
watch,
waves
«There was a little girl / Who had a little curl / Right in the middle of her forehead; / And when she was good / She was very, very good, / But when she was bad she was horrid.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet)
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Keywords:
Bad Girl,
Bad Girls,
curl,
curled up,
curling,
curls,
curl up,
forehead,
horrid,
in the middle,
little girl
«Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find»
«Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king»
«All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time.»