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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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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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Careless Change Depth Drop Emotion Full Hearth Life Moment Of Overflow Pebble Secret Shaken So There
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Already Disappoint Foolish Pretend Recover Scar Woind
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Break Change Clor Mind Reverie Seashore Sit Upon Watch Wave
All things come round to him who will but wait.
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All Thing Come Round Wait Who
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
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Defeat Ourselves People Plaudit Shout Throng
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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Begun Close Each Evening Morning See Some Task
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Best Do Get Let One Rain Thing
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Criticism Criticize Lie Strength Thing Weakmnness
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Day Fill Invisible Sky Star With
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Being Country Feminine Like Masculine Mingles Only Perfect Poem Rhyme Structure
By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Bead Crow Drop Golden Hand Kill Manage Near Passer Snake
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Demand Fredon No People Power When
Music is the universal language of mankind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Language Mankind Music Universal
Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Gather Ground never Spit Together Water
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Freedom Man Out Servitude Take Thought

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