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• Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Color, Names

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454

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• I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Christmas, Sweet, Xmas

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.475, Library of America

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• Who dares
  To say that he alone has found the truth?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Truth, Found, Dare

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1868). “The New England Tragedies”, p.39, London, G. Routledge and sons

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• I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

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  Book, Lovers, Book Lover

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• Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thinking, Self, World

  "Hyperion".

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• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Snakes, Enemy, Wish

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• Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it.

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  Fire, Long, House

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454

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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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  Book, Order, Lovers

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• An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Thinking, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2238, Delphi Classics

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• God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Choices, Might, Wilderness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1920). “The Courtship of Miles Standish, Elizabeth and Other Poems”

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• As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

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  Mind, Poetic, Purity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Kavanagh. Driftwood”, p.305

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• However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

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  Congratulations, Failure, Evil

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• The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

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  Fall, Twilight, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1039, Delphi Classics

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• The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection - itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

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  Lonely, Stars, Fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1849, Delphi Classics

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• The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

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  Mind, Literature, Should

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• Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

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  Thinking, America, Progress

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.794, Library of America

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• With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

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  Forever, Mountain, Useless

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Masque Of Pandora”

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• People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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  Freedom, People, Liberty

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• All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

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  Lying, Mean, Fire

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.66

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• The soul never grows old.

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  Soul, Old Soul, Grows

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.192

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• For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

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  Understanding, Next, Poet

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.62

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• The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

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  Sunshine, House, Grace

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Kavanagh. Driftwood”, p.363

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• Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

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  Book, Reading, Giving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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• Life like an empty dream flits by.

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  Dream, Empty

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1845). “The Poets and Poetry of Europe: With Introductions and Biographical Notices”, p.656

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• In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Victory, Triumph, Defeat

  'The Poets' (1876)

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