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My own thoughts Are my companions.
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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Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
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Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?
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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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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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Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.
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Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
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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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I will be a man among men and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will work in my own sphere, nor wish it other than it is. This alone is health and happiness.
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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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