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• Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

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  Strong, Ascending, Today

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.398, Delphi Classics

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• The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.

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  Twilight, Land, Romance

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.288

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• Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

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  Patience, Water, Laughing

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.205, Library of America

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• I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!

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  Wall, Heart, Dust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1992). “Favorite Poems”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• O thou child of many prayers!
  Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!
  Care and age come unawares!

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  Life, Prayer, Children

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.52

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• How can I tell the signals and the signs
  By which one heart another heart divines?
  How can I tell the many thousand ways
  By which it keeps the secret it betrays?

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  Life, Heart, Secret

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.242

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• The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.

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  Stars, Self, Calm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.9

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• Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

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  Love, Spring, Rain

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

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• The bravest are the tenderest.

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  "The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor" by Bayard Taylor, "The Song of the Camp", (p. 86), 1907.

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• I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.112

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• Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

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  Art, Architecture, Architect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.29, Wildside Press LLC

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• The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

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  Morning, Air, Pouring

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.1714, Library of Alexandria

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• Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

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  Prayer, Sky, Heaven

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir John Gilbert (1858). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow ... A Complete Edition, Including the Song of Hiawatha. With Illustrations by J. Gilbert, Etc”, p.73

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• Into each life some rain must fall.

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  Life, Rain, Fall

  "The Rainy Day" st. 3 (1842)

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• The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

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  Literature, Mercy, Firmness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1324, Delphi Classics

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• All things come round to him who will but wait.

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  Patience, Waiting, All Things

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edwin Edwards (1871). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Edited, with a Critical Memoir, by W. M. Rossetti. Illustrated ... by E. Edwards”, p.317

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• Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

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  Life, Art, Long

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

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• Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.

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  Life, Color, Childhood

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454

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• I love thee, as the good love heaven.

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  Life, Good Love, Heaven

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1858). “The Poetical Works”, p.148

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• Balder the Beautiful
  Is dead, is dead!

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  Beautiful

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1862). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.179

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• Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

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  Life, Temptation, Safe

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.210

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• Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

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  Stars, Rain, Clouds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “Hyperion, and Kavanagh”, p.163

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• No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

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  Sweet, Nature, Tears

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1869). “The Poetical Works”, p.19

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• Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!

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  World, Stones, Corners

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.91, Penguin

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• Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

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  Thinking, Religion, Gardening

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.360, Library of America

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