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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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Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.
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The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.
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More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.
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In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
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In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.
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Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.
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Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.
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Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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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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Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!
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The morrow was a bright September morn The earth was beautiful as if newborn There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street Congratulate each other as they meet.
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If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.
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It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.
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