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In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
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 hearts of some women tremble like leaves at every breath of love which reaches them, and they are still again. Others, like the ocean, are moved only by the breath of a storm, and not so easily lulled to rest.
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The soul...is audible, not visible.
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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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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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I love thee, as the good love heaven.
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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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In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
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One, if by land, and two, if by sea And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.
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For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language - on earth it is called Forgiveness!
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I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.
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Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
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The world loves a spice of wickedness.
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All things are symbols.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.
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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.
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A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.
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You would attain to the divine perfection.
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That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like that apple tree, I try to grow a new little wood each year.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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