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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Art Counterfeit Counterpart Nature Reproduce
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Attempt Done Earn Night Repose Sometimes
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
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Bruise Child From Hard Heart Jacket Mend Soon Work
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 dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Dawn Distant Eternal Love Night Not Starless
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Cloudy Dead Endeavor Kind Measure Morality Only Our Place Reckoning Religion Sea Siatabce Without
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
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
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Control Enemies Important Method More Strength Wish
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Across Betrre Book Conservation Man Mere Single Study Table Wise Year
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Fire Hotter Make Often Thought
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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Active Charity Consist Dream Life Man See Service Vision Willing
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Disarm Each Enemy Enough History Live Man Read Secret Sorrow Suffer
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.
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Attain Companion Fight Great Height Kept Man Raech Slept Sudan Toil
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Human Organ Soul Voice

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