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Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age: 75 †
Born: 1807
Born: January 1
Died: 1882
Died: March 24
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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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Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
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Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
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Only a look and a voice then darkness again and silence.
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Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.
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I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.
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Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
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Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!
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It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.
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Nature paints not In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds And flying vapors.
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Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.
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Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.
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So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.
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