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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Fear Forth Future Heart Manly Meet Shadowy Without
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Begin Difficult Know Love Movement
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
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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Cold Every Know Man Often Only Sad Secret Sorrow Time World
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Behind Feel Go Pain Parting Seat Suffer
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Firmness Greatest Mercy
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
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Art Counterfeit Counterpart Nature Reproduce
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
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Do Explain Right Take Thing Time
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.
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All Disarm Each Enemy Enough History Live Man Read Secret Sorrow Suffer
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Again Back Come Improve Look Mournful Past Present Thine Wisely
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.
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Address Age Another For Itself Less Opportunity Through Youth
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Change Must Something Strange Thing
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Book Currently Learn Love Nook Sequested Sweet
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

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