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Death is better than disease.
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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Fair words gladden so many a heart.
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The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
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Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.
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God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.
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Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!
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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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This will be a great day in our history the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!
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