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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Beautiful Character Evil Love Loved Object Trait
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
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Break Change Clor Mind Reverie Seashore Sit Upon Watch Wave
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
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
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Dawn Distant Eternal Love Night Not Starless
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Come Deserve Destiny Fame Inevitable
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
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Attempt Done Earn Night Repose Sometimes
Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Fear Forth Future Heart Manly Meet Shadowy Without
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Above Aim Hit Little Mark Must Would
Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Gather Ground never Spit Together Water
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
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Mind Poetic Poetical Pure Thing
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Always Combine Courtesy Golden House Intelligence Often Room Wooden
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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