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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age: 75 †
Born: 1807
Born: January 1
Died: 1882
Died: March 24
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O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.
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We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.
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Tis always morning somewhere.
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White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.
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The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air.
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The soul never grows old.
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Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.
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Write on your doors the saying wise and old, Be bold! be bold! and everywhere - Be bold Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect better the more than less Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.
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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
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I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.
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Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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In December ring Every day the chimes Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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