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I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart
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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Love is a bodily shape and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.
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Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.
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For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.
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Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.
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An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.
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From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
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The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.
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Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!
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Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.
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Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee All things are passing God never changeth Patient endurance Attaineth to all things Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting Alone God sufficeth.
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A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.
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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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In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere
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All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.
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In youth all doors open outward in old age all open inward.
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Stars of earth, these golden flowers emblems of our own great resurrection emblems of the bright and better land.
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