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Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.
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 day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?
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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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The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.
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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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Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.
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I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.
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When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.
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The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers.
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I am the Angel of the Sun Whose flaming wheels began to run When God's almighty breath Said to the darkness and the Night, Let there be light! and there was light.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!
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The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.
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A solid man of Boston A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.
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Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
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We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.
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Love is the root of creation God's essence worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.
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