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• He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

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  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.233

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• All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

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  Lying, Mean, Fire

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.66

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• People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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  Freedom, People, Liberty

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• The soul never grows old.

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  Soul, Old Soul, Grows

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.192

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• Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

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  Sculpture, Phantoms, Painting

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.146, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.

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  Heart, Brain, Highest

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.127

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• I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

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  Air, Arrows, Earth

  'The Arrow and the Song' (1845)

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• Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

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  Hope, Kings, Cat

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1975, Delphi Classics

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• Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

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  Book, Reading, Giving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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• Life like an empty dream flits by.

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  Dream, Empty

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1845). “The Poets and Poetry of Europe: With Introductions and Biographical Notices”, p.656

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• The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

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  Sympathy, Sports, Condolences

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1076, Delphi Classics

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• None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

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  Enemy, Foe

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.84, Wildside Press LLC

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• In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

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  Victory, Triumph, Defeat

  'The Poets' (1876)

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• You would attain to the divine perfection.

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  Perfection, Divine

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

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• With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

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  Mistake, Writing, Style

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.429

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• I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love.

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  Wall, Night, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.2

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• A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

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  Love, Boys, Wind

  'My Lost Youth' (1858)

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• Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.

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  Suicide, Sleep, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.188

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• O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

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  Pain, Heart, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.49

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• Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

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  Children, Flower, Roots

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• There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.453

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• Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

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  Art, Luck, Horseshoes

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.103

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• Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

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  Patience, Bridges, Crosses

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• I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will work in my own sphere, nor wish it other than it is. This alone is health and happiness.

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  Reality, Men, Dreamer

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

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• And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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  Air, Water, Noise

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