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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age: 75 †
Born: 1807
Born: January 1
Died: 1882
Died: March 24
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All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.
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And in despair I bowed my head There is no peace on earth, I said For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men!
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You would attain to the divine perfection.
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What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.
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A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
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So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.
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We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.
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Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.
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Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent.
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Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?
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Balder the Beautiful Is dead, is dead!
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The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.
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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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Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
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A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.
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Art is the child of Nature.
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And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.
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Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and refreshing coolness! How beautiful the long mild twilight, which, like a silver clasp, unites today with yesterday!
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Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee All things are passing God never changeth Patient endurance Attaineth to all things Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting Alone God sufficeth.
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Love gives itself it is not bought.
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