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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age: 75 †
Born: 1807
Born: January 1
Died: 1882
Died: March 24
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O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine!
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Time rides with the old At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds See the near landscape fly and flow behind them, While the remoter fields and dim horizons Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them, So in old age things near us slip away, And distant things go with us.
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When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
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Fear is the virtue of slaves but the heart that loveth is willing.
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The soul...is audible, not visible.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
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Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.
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From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
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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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Learn to labour and to wait.
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Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.
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There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.
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Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.
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Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
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Every author has the whole past to contend with all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.
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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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