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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Build Strong Sure Today
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Attempt Done Earn Night Repose Sometimes
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,
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Careless Change Depth Drop Emotion Full Hearth Life Moment Of Overflow Pebble Secret Shaken So There
Evil is only good perverted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Evil Good Only Pervert
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
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
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
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Element Enough Gate Great Knock Long Preserving Somebody Sucess Sure Up Wake
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
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Day Fill Invisible Sky Star With
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Address Age Another For Itself Less Opportunity Through Youth
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Active Charity Consist Dream Life Man See Service Vision Willing
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Evil Failure Good However May Seem Succes Thing
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Gain Prize Purse Rapture Vanquish
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
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Come Lifetime Once One Liner Youth
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
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Demand Fredon No People Power When
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Again Forth Fountain Return Send Which
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
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Better Clark Cold Keep Love Out
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Brought Give Itself Love Nit
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Freedom Man Out Servitude Take Thought
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
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Across Betrre Book Conservation Man Mere Single Study Table Wise Year
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
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Cease Exquisite Music Pass Seem She When

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