213 ordspråk av Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait
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Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
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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 and with a manly heart.
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Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger
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Looks the whole world in the face, / For he owes not any man.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Manlike it is to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein, Christ like it is for sin to grieve, Godlike it is all sin to leave
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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings /as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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