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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.
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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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And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.
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