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• The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

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  Fall, Night, Eagles

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.108

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• I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

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  Men, Dreamer, Shadow

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

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• To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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  Self, Intellectual, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “Outre-mer and Drift-wood”

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• There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

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  Dream, Strong, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.339, Library of America

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• This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

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  Past, Scene, Form

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.31, Library of America

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• The human voice is the organ of the soul.

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  Voice, Soul, Organs

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• A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

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  Fire, Burning, Enthusiasm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Kavanagh, and Other Pieces”, p.364

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• Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

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  Stars, Angel, Moon Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Evangeline and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

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  Heart, Diversity, Noble

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Santa Filomena. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)”

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• So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

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  Hands, Rivers, Environmental

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.848, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

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  Beauty, God, Art

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.138

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• He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

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  Men, Labor Day, Faces

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 2 (1839)

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• There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

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  Sad, Sweet, Hate

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.269

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• Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

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  Fashion, Self, Dust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.807, Delphi Classics

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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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• How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

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  Beautiful, Morning, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1852). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With Illustrations by John Gilbert”, p.272

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• I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

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  Friendship, Song, Strong

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Everyman's Poetry”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

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  Believe, Heart, Brain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1967). “The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volume I-II: 1814-1843”, p.470, Harvard University Press

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• Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

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  Mom, Mother, Art

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

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  Twilight, Joy, Departed

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1099, Delphi Classics

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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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• We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

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  Wings, Feet, Progress

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.273

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• As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor. Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead Which, the more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

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  Mother, Children, Sleep

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.322, Penguin

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• The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

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  Wall, Book, Glowing

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• Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

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  Sunday, Together, Golden

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 525), 1895.

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