Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882

Topics

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You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

Jim Cantalupo

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I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

Jello Biafra

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I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

Maximilian Schell

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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Maxim Gorky

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I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive black agenda. We need to do what leaders have suggested since slavery. We need to recognize that while we are not monolithic, there is power in embracing a common agenda.

Angela Rye

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My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

Angelina Jolie

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Having a support system is huge for writers. My parents were always encouraging and told me they were behind me, whether or not I made it in the business. My wife was always there for my successes and failures.

Stephen J. Cannell

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Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

Steve Vai

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After a lifetime of feeling at home in my plus-size body, I was a 27-year-old having self-esteem issues. Clothes shopping stopped being fun and became a chore; I couldn't wear the curve-showing styles I loved without Spanx - and I worried that my new body would affect my training.

Michelle Carter

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We only have one body, and you have to show respect for it.

Mireille Guiliano

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Jesus's first commandment was to love one another.

Chris Gibson

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Putting on weight for me is really, really hard. If I stop lifting, or if I stop eating, I get skinny really quick.

Christopher Gorham

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