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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Clamor Crowd Defeat Not Ourselves Plaudut Shout Street Throng
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Gain Prize Purse Rapture Vanquish
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Begin Difficult Know Love Movement
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Art Every Goeth Grace Heart Unto Work
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Firmness Greatest Mercy
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Benefit Devotion Enemy Fold Hand Intension Man Strength Whoever
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Demand Fredon No People Power When
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Build Strong Sure Today
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Element Enough Gate Great Knock Long Preserving Somebody Sucess Sure Up Wake
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Doctor Door Joy Nose Repose Slam Temperature
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Already Capable Dfeel Do Judge Other Ourselves Sone
Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Fear Forth Future Heart Manly Meet Shadowy Without
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Coat Himself Meall None Other Pierce Respect Safe Wear
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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Deserve Do Fame Nothing Sort Sucess Talent Through Well Whatever Without
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Do Explain Right Take Thing Time
Music is the universal language of mankind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Language Mankind Music Universal

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