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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

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People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 27th, 1807

Died: March 24th, 1882

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