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• Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Patience, Justice, Waiting

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.697, Library of America

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• When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

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  Stars, Heaven, Christ

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With prefatory notice”, p.90

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• Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

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  Stars, Powerful, Passion

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• Art is the child of Nature.

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  Nature, Art, Children

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

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• The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.

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  Thank You, Atmosphere, Comfort

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.804, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

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  Wings, Feet, Progress

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.273

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• It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

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  Love, Beautiful, Character

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• The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

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  Stars, Life And Love, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

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  Wall, Book, Glowing

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• For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

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  Happy Birthday, Time, Stars

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.282, Penguin

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• Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

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  Artist, Departed, Dies

  'The Poets' (1876)

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• Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

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  Fashion, Self, Dust

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

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• In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

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  Hero, Dumb, Battle

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.3

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• Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

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  Happiness, Health, Doctors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

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  Country, Poet, Great Poet

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.69

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• In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

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  Depression, Believe, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.154

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• Whatever hath been written shall remain,
  Nor be erased nor written o'er again;
  The unwritten only still belongs to thee:
  Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

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  Thee, Authorship, Pondering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.917, Delphi Classics

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• Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

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  Happy Birthday, Twilight, Opportunity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

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  Mom, Mother, Art

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

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  Wisdom, Simple, Patient

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.9

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• How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

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  Beautiful, Dream, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.276, Penguin

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• A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

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  Children, Heart, Parenting

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

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• There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

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  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.134

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• Your education begins where what is called your education is over.
  Your fate is but the common lot of all.

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  Fate, Over You, Common

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• Love gives itself; it is not bought.

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  Love, Short Love, Famous Love

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