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• This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.

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  Ocean, Twilight, Sadness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.98

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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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• Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

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  Stars, Night, Holy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1849, Delphi Classics

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• In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

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  Inspirational, Success, Running

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• Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

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  Thinking, Principles, Loyal

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.265

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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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• The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

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  Poetry, Elements, Saturn

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Kavanagh. Driftwood”, p.365

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• However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

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  Congratulations, Failure, Evil

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• Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

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  Dust, Soul, Stronger

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.924, Jazzybee Verlag

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• That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

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  Literature, Return, Fountain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.252

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• The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

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  Grace, Return, Anticipate

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

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• Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

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  Love, Dream, Easter

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.88, Library of America

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• Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Good Friend

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.265

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• The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark

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  Memories, Dark

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.295, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

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  Fear, Light, Rays

  "Essays, First Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• As great Pythagoras of yore,
  Standing beside the blacksmith's door,
  And hearing the hammers, as they smote
  The anvils with a different note,
  Stole from the varying tones, that hung
  Vibrant on every iron tongue,
  The secret of the sounding wire.
  And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

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  Iron, Doors, Secret

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.105

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• The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

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  Success, Congratulations, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Hyperion”, p.66

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• If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

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  Forgiving, Mind, Body

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• My Book and Heart Shall never part.

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  Book, Heart, Parting

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• That was the first sound in the song of love!
  Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound.
  Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings
  Of that mysterious instrument, the soul,
  And play the prelude of our fate. We hear
  The voice prophetic, and are not alone.

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  Life, Song, Fate

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.108

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• Let nothing disturb thee,
  Nothing affright thee;
  All things are passing;
  God never changeth;
  Patient endurance
  Attaineth to all things;
  Who God possesseth
  In nothing is wanting;
  Alone God sufficeth.

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  Patience, Endurance, Patient

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.694, Library of America

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• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

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  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.189

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• There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

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  Love, Life, Wings

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1961, Delphi Classics

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• Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

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  Angel, Men, Eden

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.110

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• Your silent tents of green
  We deck with fragrant flowers;
  Yours has the suffering been,
  The memory shall be ours.

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  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Memories

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1074, Delphi Classics

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