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Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave
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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Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
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Nature paints not In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds And flying vapors.
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Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
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The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.
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The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.
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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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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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I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.
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Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.
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I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart
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A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.
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The day is done and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!
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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.
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We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.
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Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!
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