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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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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Another Darkness Ocean Pass Shown Signal Silence Speak
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Firmness Greatest Mercy
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Art Counterfeit Counterpart Nature Reproduce
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
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Begun Close Each Evening Morning See Some Task
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Cold Every Know Man Often Only Sad Secret Sorrow Time World
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
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Each Other Night Pass Ship Speak
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 dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Dawn Distant Eternal Love Night Not Starless
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Again Back Come Improve Look Mournful Past Present Thine Wisely
Evil is only good perverted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Evil Good Only Pervert
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
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Attain Companion Fight Great Height Kept Man Raech Slept Sudan Toil
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
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Gain Prize Purse Rapture Vanquish

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