Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Henry Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
| Born | February 27, 1807 Portland, Maine |
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| Died | March 24, 1882 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
American poet. Best known for "Paul Revere's Ride" (1863) and "The Wreck of the Hesperus" (1841).
The repository contains five quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Doctors and Health • Words of Wisdom
Joy, temperance, and repose slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
