Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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'American Idol' is such a big platform. It's been on for so many seasons. I went on the show not thinking I was going to make it that far at all because there was so many talented people that auditioned.

Jessica Sanchez

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Football is a game you play with your mind.

Johan Cruyff

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I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will!

Jennifer Aniston

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The White House has a secular, humanistic agenda.

John Fleming

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In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.

Max von Sydow

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I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

St. Jerome

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Best thing for a government to do is to eliminate obstacles like filing registrations, getting licences, and so on... tedious steps slow everything down.

Masayoshi Son

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Sometimes I think it's easier to play someone who's very, very different from yourself. Besides, I wouldn't want to play people who are just like me; that would get awfully boring very fast!

Julia Stiles

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I've never hurt a single person in my whole life - never even wanted to hurt someone.

Denis Shapovalov

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I don't think any artist really knows why a song gets popular.

Chick Corea

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Punk rock and straight edge will always be married together. As far as me integrating that with wrestling, I learned a lot from punk rock.

CM Punk

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Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity.

Annie Besant

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