Frases de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Otra versión: "Mucha gente triunfaría en menudas cosas si no estuvieran perturbados con grandes ambiciones."

Table-Talk (1857)
Fuente: The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Part I, section 3.
Fuente: Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)

St. 7.
A Psalm of Life (1839)
Fuente: Voices of the Night

"The Battle of Lovell's Pond," poem first published in the Portland Gazette (November 17, 1820).
Contexto: p>The warriors that fought for their country, and bled,
Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed;
No stone tells the place where their ashes repose,
Nor points out the spot from the graves of their foes.They died in their glory, surrounded by fame,
And Victory's loud trump their death did proclaim;
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast,
And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.</p

Table-Talk (1857)
Contexto: Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, — a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen. By going out a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend at a corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some great occasion of good, or avoid some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution to the dark enigma but the one word, "Providence".

Variante: The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Outre-Mer.