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• Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Past, Looks, One Tree Hill Love

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

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  Sympathy, Death, Condolences

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Outre-Mer - A Pilgrimage Beyond The Sea (Annotated Edition)”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Patience, Bridges, Crosses

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• The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

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  Inspirational, Hope, Gone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1853). “Hyperion, illustr. from drawings by B. Foster”, p.4

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• Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

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  Strong, Silence, Sorrow

  'Giotto's Tower' (1866)

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• Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

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  Life, Masculine And Feminine, Perfect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1061, Delphi Classics

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• He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

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  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.233

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• Life is the gift of God, and is divine.

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  Life, Life Is, Divine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.807, Delphi Classics

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• Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Waiting, Lessons

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1882, Delphi Classics

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• You would attain to the divine perfection.

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  Perfection, Divine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

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  Mistake, Writing, Style

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.429

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• I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love.

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  Wall, Night, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.2

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• A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

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  Love, Boys, Wind

  'My Lost Youth' (1858)

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• All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

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  Rain, Weather, Silent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.150

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• Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.

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  Suicide, Sleep, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.188

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• Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

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  Sculpture, Phantoms, Painting

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.146, Wildside Press LLC

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• The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

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  Fall, Rain, Sleep

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Golden Legend: Iv. The Road To Hirschau”

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• I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

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  Secret, Criticism, Receiving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1853). “Kavanagh: A Tale”, p.184

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• I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will work in my own sphere, nor wish it other than it is. This alone is health and happiness.

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  Reality, Men, Dreamer

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.225

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• And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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  Air, Water, Noise

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• But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

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  Age, Rust, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.102

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• It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

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  Sea, Progress, Monsters

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.47, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Clouds, Centaurs

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

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• Make not thyself the judge of any man.

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  Men, Judging, Prison

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.810, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Kavanagh: And Other Pieces”, p.364

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