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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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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
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Does Grief Like No Not Speak
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Enough Gate Knock Last Only Somebody Wake
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Brought Give Itself Love Nit
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Come Lifetime Once One Liner Youth
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
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

Crown Grace Helicon Many Mouldering Muses Old People Person Poet Sunshine Too Visit
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
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Bruise Child From Hard Heart Jacket Mend Soon Work
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Come Deserve Destiny Fame Inevitable
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Ambition Breast High However Human never Pasion Powerful Reach Satisfied
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Achieve Any Do Fate Heart Labor Learn Let Purse Still Us Wait
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Begun Close Each Evening Morning See Some Task
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
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
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Coat Himself Meall None Other Pierce Respect Safe Wear

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