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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
United States
27 Feb 1807 // 24 Mar 1882
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On Music:
Music is the universal language of mankind.
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He has singed the beard of the king of Spain.
The Dutch Picture
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On Opportunity:
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
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On Tears:
No tears
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Sunrise on the Hills
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On Patience:
All things come round to him who will but wait.
Tales of a Wayside Inn. The Student's Tale
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On Thought:
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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On Ability:
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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Into a world unknown, - the corner-stone of a nation!
The Courtship of Miles Standish
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On Life:
In this world a man must be either anvil or hammer.
Hyperion
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On Adversity:
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
The Light of Stars
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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