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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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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Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.
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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
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I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.
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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.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
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The world loves a spice of wickedness.
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The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
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We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.
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Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.
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The secret anniversaries of the heart.
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