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• Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

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  Tired, Heart, Too Late

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.838, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

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  Men, Dreamer, Shadow

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

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• What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!

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  Prayer, Pain, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• The sea hath its pearls
  The heaven hath its stars
  But my heart, my heart
  Has its love.

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  Romantic, Boyfriend, Stars

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.113

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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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  Respect, Self Esteem, Coats

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1501, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

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  Beauty, God, Art

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.138

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  If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

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  Brotherhood, May, Love One Another

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.81, Library of America

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• I am the Angel of the Sun
  Whose flaming wheels began to run
  When God's almighty breath
  Said to the darkness and the Night,
  Let there be light! and there was light.

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  Running, Angel, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.266

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• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

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  Rain, Fall, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.18, Library of America

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• It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

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  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Passion

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• Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

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  God, Time, Future

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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• Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

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  Silence, Desire, Three

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1004, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

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  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Ideas

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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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  Life, Self Improvement, Noble

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• Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

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  Patience, Men, Waiting

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

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• Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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  Freedom, Thinking, Men

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• Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

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  Sunset, Clouds, Oil

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.2014, Library of Alexandria

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• Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.

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  Past Future, Fear Of The Future, Future And Present

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Hyperion”, p.228, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

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  Life, Change, Sympathy

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 7 (1838)

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• Our hearts are lamps for ever burning.

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  Heart, Lamps, Burning

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1203, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

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  Strength, Lying, Criticism

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.110, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Today is the blocks with which we build.

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  Block, Live In The Moment, Today

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Poetical works: A new edition, illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs drawn by John Gilbert, engraved by the brothers Dalziel. (Inhalt: Veires of the night. - Earlier poems. - Translations. - Ballads and other poems. - Miscellaneous. - Poems on slavery. - The belfry of Bruges, and other poems Evangeline. - The seaside and the fireside. - By the seaside. - By fireside.)”, p.356

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• In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

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  Leadership, Work, Character

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1839). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.203

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• Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.638

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