6523. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1807-1882. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	6523
AUTHOR:	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
QUOTATION:	Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. 1
ATTRIBUTION:	The Ladder of Saint Augustine.

Note 1.
I held it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things.
Tennyson: In Memoriam, i. [back]

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