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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 Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! Quote Right
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Quote Left Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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Quote Left No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. Quote Right
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Quote Left Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs