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• Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Toil, Immortal

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.875, Delphi Classics

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• I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Air, Arrows, Earth

  'The Arrow and the Song' (1845)

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• My own thoughts Are my companions.

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  Companion, My Own

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.800, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

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  Hope, Kings, Cat

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1975, Delphi Classics

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• The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

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  Sympathy, Sports, Condolences

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1076, Delphi Classics

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• None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

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  Enemy, Foe

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.84, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.

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  Heart, Brain, Highest

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.127

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• Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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  Nature, Conceited, Self

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “Outre-mer and Drift-wood”

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• Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Old Friends, Welcome

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1850). “Poems lyrical and dramatic, including “The seaside and the fireside” ... Second edition”, p.321

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• The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

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  Forever, Mystic, Streams

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.148

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• Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

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  Inspirational, Men, Genius

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

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• Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught
  In schools, some graduate of the field or street,
  Who shall become a master of art,
  An admiral sailing the high seas of thought
  Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet
  For lands not yet laid down in any chart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, School, Boys

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1073, Delphi Classics

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• Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

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  Art, Two, Forever

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2078, Delphi Classics

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• 'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
  Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

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  Easter, Sunday, Air

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.49

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• Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

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  Children, Flower, Roots

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• There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.453

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• O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

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  Pain, Heart, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.49

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• The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

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  Art, Nature, Counterfeit Money

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.645, Library of America

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• Torrent of light and river of air,
  Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen,
  Like gold and silver sands in some ravine
  Where mountain streams have left their channels bare!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Science, Rivers

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.844, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Decide not rashly. The decision made
  Can never be recalled. The gods implore not,
  Plead not, solicit not; they only offer
  Choice and occasion, which once being passed
  Return no more. Dost thou accept the gift?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Choices, Decision, Return

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.878, Delphi Classics

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• Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

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  Art, Luck, Horseshoes

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.103

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• A handful of red sand from the hot clime
  Of Arab deserts brought,
  Within this glass becomes the spy of Time,
  The minister of Thought.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Glasses, Spy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.135

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• Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

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  Beautiful, Summer, June

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Penguin

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• The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.

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  Taken, Judging, Vagabonds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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• Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lying, Ideas, Romance

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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