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Writing Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
- Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word.
- Look, then, into thine heart, and write!
- This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even…
- Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than…
- With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.
- There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.
- If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.
- Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That…
- Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
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