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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
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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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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The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.
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Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.
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Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.
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Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.
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The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.
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By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.
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Do not fear! Heaven is as near, He said, by water as by land!
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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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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.
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Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.
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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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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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A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.
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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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Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave
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Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
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The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret longings that arise, Which this world never satisfies! Some more, some less, but of the whole Not one quite happy, no, not one!
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The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.
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