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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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.

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 27th, 1807

Died: March 24th, 1882

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