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What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?
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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Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.
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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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All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.
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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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Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.
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I love thee, as the good love heaven.
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Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Buried was the bloody hatchet Buried was the dreadful war-club Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.
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Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.
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They are dead but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.
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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 heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.
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