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• Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

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  Strength, Strong, Grief

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.10

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• Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.

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  Children, Lying, Love Is

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1611, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

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  Accidents

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• Defeat may be victory in disguise.

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  Victory, May, Defeat

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

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• Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

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  God, Time, Future

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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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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• 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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• It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

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  Love, Life, Confused

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2083, Delphi Classics

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• All things must change
  To something new, to something strange.

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  Change, Strange, Something New

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.875, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

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  Beach, Ocean, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

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  Heart, Reality, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.350, Delphi Classics

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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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• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

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  Snakes, Crow, Enemy

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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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• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

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

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• Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.

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  Home, Heart, My Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.991, Delphi Classics

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• Love gives itself; it is not bought.

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  Love, Short Love, Famous Love

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• The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

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  Motivational, Depression, Adversity

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

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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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• It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

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  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Passion

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• The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

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  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.44

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• No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

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  Men, Giving, Advice

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• From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

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  Death, Art, Dust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm Of Life”

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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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• 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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