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• Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.

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  Weed, Kindness, Flower

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  A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

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  Positive, Single, Wise

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

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• It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

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• If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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  Life, Inspiring, Sympathy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

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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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• Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

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  Success, Waiting, Excellence

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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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• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

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  Life, Happiness, Sad

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• Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  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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• 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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• 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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• The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

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  Memories, Heart, Mind

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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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• 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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• 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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• Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

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  Writing, Heart, Looks

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1839). “Voices of the Night”, p.15

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• Youth comes but once a life time. Perhaps, but it remains strong in many for their entire lives.

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  Strong, Youth, Life Time

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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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• 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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• 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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• For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness.

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  Fate, Voice, Rivers

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1992). “Favorite Poems”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

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  Regret, Men, Average

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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 highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

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  Art, Eye, Exercise

  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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• 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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