“ In every man, he loves his humanity only, not his superiority. ”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839). copy citation
| Author | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Source | Hyperion |
| Topic | humanity superiority |
| Date | 1839 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5436/5436-h/5436-h.htm |
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“Over all he sees, over all he writes, are spread the sunbeams of a cheerful spirit,--the light of inexhaustible human love. Every sound of human joy and of human sorrow finds a deep-resoundingecho in his bosom. In every man, he loves his humanity only, not his superiority. The avowed object of all his literary labors was to raise up again the down-sunken faith in God, virtue, and immortality; and, in an egotistical, revolutionary age, to warm again our human sympathies, which have now grown cold.”
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