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Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.
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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Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.
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When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it! When thou smilest, my beloved, Then my troubled heart is brightened, As in sunshine gleam the ripples That the cold wind makes in rivers.
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Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.
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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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How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!
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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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A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.
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In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere
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Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.
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When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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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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Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! Thus the tale ended.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.
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I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions
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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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