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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Human Organ Soul Voice
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
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Character Excellence Manner Simplicity Style Supreme Thing
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Clamor Crowd Defeat Not Ourselves Plaudut Shout Street Throng
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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Build Strong Sure Today
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Already Disappoint Foolish Pretend Recover Scar Woind
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

Crown Grace Helicon Many Mouldering Muses Old People Person Poet Sunshine Too Visit
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Come Deserve Destiny Fame Inevitable
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Again Forth Fountain Return Send Which
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Evil Failure Good However May Seem Succes Thing
Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Gather Ground never Spit Together Water
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Benefit Devotion Enemy Fold Hand Intension Man Strength Whoever
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Freedom Man Out Servitude Take Thought
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Character Excellence Manner Simplicity Supreme Thing
Music is the universal language of mankind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Language Mankind Music Universal
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Each Other Night Pass Ship Speak

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