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• Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

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  Stars, Angel, Moon Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Evangeline and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

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  Love, Night, Dawn

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

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• So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

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  Hands, Rivers, Environmental

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.848, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

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  Happiness, Home, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.991, Delphi Classics

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• Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

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  Sunday, Together, Golden

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 525), 1895.

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• Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

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  Heart, Diversity, Noble

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Santa Filomena. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)”

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• The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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  Love, Inspirational, Sweet

  "Morituri Salutamus" st. 21 (1875)

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• The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers.

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  Children, Spring, Flower

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2429, Delphi Classics

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• I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

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  Believe, Men, Mind

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• If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

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  Women, Medusa, Stones

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

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• All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord.
  Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

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  Strength, Brother, Diversity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.430, Delphi Classics

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• Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

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  Art, Glory, Used

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

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• Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

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  Inspirational, Time, Sorrow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

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  Music, Appreciation, Teacher

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

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• He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

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  Men, Labor Day, Faces

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 2 (1839)

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• The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.

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  Law, Causes, Mercy

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

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• To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. 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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  Self, Intellectual, Mind

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

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• Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

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  Time, Learning, Heart

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 9 (1838)

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• The human voice is the organ of the soul.

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  Voice, Soul, Organs

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• Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

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  Guests, Tomorrow, Mysterious

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.862, Delphi Classics

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• The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

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  Twilight, Joy, Departed

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1099, Delphi Classics

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• Every man has his secret sorrows.

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  Sad, Depression, Being Happy

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• A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

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  Fire, Burning, Enthusiasm

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

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• A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving.

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  Pain, Gun, Boys

  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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• Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.

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  Air, Clouds, Snow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.351, Library of America

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