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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Dawn Distant Eternal Love Night Not Starless
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Human Organ Soul Voice
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Does Grief Like No Not Speak
Into each life some rain must fall.
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Each Fail Into Life Must Some Train
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
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Mind Poetic Poetical Pure Thing
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Doctor Door Joy Nose Repose Slam Temperature
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
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Criticism Criticize Lie Strength Thing Weakmnness
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Affection Cu=Ity Feel Great Man Neighbourhood Safe Security Street Sweet
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Beter Gove May Somebody Think
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
Evil is only good perverted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Evil Good Only Pervert
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Demand Fredon No People Power When
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Change Must Something Strange Thing
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Come Contact Large Leave Liberal Mind Other Scholar Would
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Come Deserve Destiny Fame Inevitable
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Coat Conceit Generally Hole Leave Mind Nature Person Plaastere Self Whenever
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Darker Drawn Nearer Night
All things come round to him who will but wait.
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All Thing Come Round Wait Who
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
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Ambition Breast High However Human never Pasion Powerful Reach Satisfied
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Cease Exquisite Music Pass Seem She When
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Freedom Man Out Servitude Take Thought
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Gain Prize Purse Rapture Vanquish
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Above Aim Hit Little Mark Must Would
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Army Author Challenge Critic Every Grand New Newspaper Sentence Station

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