Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it."	Age, Happiness, Joy
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."	Books, Learning, Love
"To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be."	Age, Strength, Time
"The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart."	Art, Lies, Time
"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."	Miscellaneous
"Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues."	Change, Learning, Men
"Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. "	Love
"Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. "	Art, Goals, Life
"If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning."	Miscellaneous
"The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart."	Art, Lies, Time
"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, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together."	Art, Life, Men
"Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong."	Knowledge, Strength, Wisdom
"It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong."	Time
"Let us then, be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Art
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility."	History, Life, Men
"The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing."	Art, Sin
"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."	Darkness, Excellence, Light
"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after."	Ability, Success, Talent
"We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps."	Art, Funerals
"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone."	Art, Genius, Men
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