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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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American poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of the greatest poets in American history. Born in Portland, Maine, He became professor of Modern Languages in Harvard University; wrote "Hyperion," a romance in prose, and a succession of poems as well as lyrics, among the former "Evangeline," "The Golden Legend," "Hiawatha," and "Miles Standish"


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Quote Left The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. Quote Right
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Quote Left Into each life some rain must fall. Quote Right
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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Quote Left Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead. Quote Right
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Quote Left Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! Quote Right
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