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You would attain to the divine perfection.
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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But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.
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Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, - Be these henceforth thy theme. (excerpt from Voices of the Night)
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
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Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.
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Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
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In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
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Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! Thus the tale ended.
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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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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
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O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load I, nearer to the wayside inn Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road!
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Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.
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I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart
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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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Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!
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White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.
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For bells are the voice of the church They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.
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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!
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The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
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Nothing that is can pause or stay / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.
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