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The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
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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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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Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
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Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed.
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Man is unjust, but God is just and finally justice triumphs.
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You would attain to the divine perfection.
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Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
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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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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.
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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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To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.
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