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„Könnten wir die geheime Geschichte unserer „Feinde“ lesen, dürften wir im Leben eines jeden einzelnen genug Schmerz und Leid finden, um alle Feindseligkeit zu entwaffnen.“

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

„Das Beste, was man tun kann, wenn es regnet, ist, es regnen zu lassen.“

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

„Musik ist die universelle Sprache der Menschheit - Poesie ist ihr universeller Zeitvertreib und ihre Freude.“

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

„Lern zu arbeiten und zu warten.“

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ein Psalm des Lebens
Original engl.: "Learn to labour and to wait." - Poets http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16614 (Stand 18.08.2007))

„Trau der Zukunft nicht, - begraben // Lass Vergangenheit, was tot; // Freudig schaffen soll uns laben, // Herz in der Brust und über uns Gott!“

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life

Gedicht "A Psalm of Life

„Diejenigen, die gehen, fühlen nicht den Schmerz des Abschieds. Der zurückbleibende leidet.“

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

„Jeder Mensch hat seine geheimen Sorgen, die die Welt nicht kennt; und oft nennen wir einen Mann kalt, wenn er nur traurig ist.“

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

„Trau nicht, was die Zukunft bringt — // Was vergangen ist, sei todt — // Im lebend'gen Heute ringe, // In dir Muth und ob dir Gott!“

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ein Psalm des Lebens. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Band 19, Braunschweig 1856, S. 205 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=VmAVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA205&dq=trau
Original engl.: "Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! // Let the dead Past bury its dead! // Act -- act in the living Present! // Heart within, and God o'erhead!" - Poets http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16614 (Stand 18.08.2007)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Zitate auf Englisch

“Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Table-Talk (1857)

“Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate,
Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours
Weeping upon his bed has sate,
He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow buch Hyperion

Motto, Hyperion, book i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Hermes:
Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.”

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The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems (1875)

“The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And mournings for the dead.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation

“She floats upon the river of his thoughts.”

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The Spanish Student http://www.readbookonline.net/title/3208/, Act II, sc. iii (1843).

“It is the fate of a woman
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,
Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Part VI.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

“The scholar and the world! The endless strife,
The discord in the harmonies of life!
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books;
The market-place, the eager love of gain,
Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!”

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St. 23.
Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)

“Footprints, that perhaps another,
Travelling o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life

St. 8.
A Psalm of Life (1839)

“If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me,
Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me?
If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Pt. III, The Lover's Errand.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

“Three Silences there are: the first of speech,
The second of desire, the third of thought;
This is the lore a Spanish monk, distraught
With dreams and visions, was the first to teach.”

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The Three Silences of Molinos http://www.readbookonline.net/read/3051/12504/ (1878).

“There is no Death! What seems so is transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
Whose portal we call Death.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation

Resignation, st. 5.

“Read from some humbler poet,
Whose songs gushed from his heart,
As showers from the clouds of summer,
Or tears from the eyelids start.”

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St. 7.
The Day is Done (1845)

“Stronger than steel is the sword of the Spirit;
Swifter than arrows, the light of the truth;
Greater than anger is love that subdueth.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

The Nun of Nidaros, st. 9.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

“No one is so accursed by fate,
No one so utterly desolate,
But some heart, though unknown,
Responds unto his own.”

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Endymion, st. 8 (1842).

“And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Arrow and the Song

The Arrow and the Song, st. 3.

“Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

Pt. I, The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride, st. 1.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

“Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act in the living present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life

St. 6.
A Psalm of Life (1839)

“Were half the power that fills the world with terror,
Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts,
Given to redeem the human mind from error,
There were no need of arsenals and forts.”

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The Arsenal at Springfield.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Nothing useless is, or low;
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Builders

The Builders, st. 2 (1849).

“The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.”

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The Herons of Elmwood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“This is the place. Stand still, my steed,—
Let me review the scene,
And summon from the shadowy past
The forms that once have been.”

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A Gleam of Sunshine, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Arrow and the Song

The Arrow and the Song, st. 1 (1845).

“Moons waxed and waned, the lilacs bloomed and died,
In the broad river ebbed and flowed the tide,
Ships went to sea, and ships came home from sea,
And the slow years sailed by and ceased to be.”

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Lady Wentworth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Look, then, into thine heart, and write!”

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Voices of the Night http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/Chap1.html, Prelude, st. 19 (1839).

“The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, — the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.”

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Table-Talk (1857)

“Let him not boast who puts his armor on
As he who puts it off, the battle done.
Study yourselves; and most of all note well
Wherein kind Nature meant you to excel.
Not every blossom ripens into fruit.”

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St. 11.
Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)

“What land is this? Yon pretty town
Is Delft, with all its wares displayed:
The pride, the market-place, the crown
And centre of the Potter's trade.”

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Kéramos http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/chap22.html, line 66; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 187.