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I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
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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The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.
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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent.
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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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Life like an empty dream flits by.
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Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.
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How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.
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And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.
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Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
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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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Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
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Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
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More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.
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What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.
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The sun is set and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.
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Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.
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I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.
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