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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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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
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Better Clark Cold Keep Love Out
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Best Do Get Let One Rain Thing
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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All Mind Poetic Poetical Pure Thing
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Each Other Night Pass Ship Speak
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
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Army Author Challenge Critic Every Grand New Newspaper Sentence Station
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Already Capable Dfeel Do Judge Other Ourselves Sone
Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Affection never Talk Waste
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Ambition Great More People Small Success Thing Trobled
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Change Must Something Strange Thing
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Enough Gate Knock Last Only Somebody Wake
By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Bead Crow Drop Golden Hand Kill Manage Near Passer Snake
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
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
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Demand Fredon No People Power When

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