Wadsworth Longfellow

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    “Let us, then, be up and doing,
    With a heart for any fate;
    Still achieving, still pursuing,
    Learn to labor and to wait.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “And all the great traditions of the Past
    They saw reflected in the coming time.

    And thus forever with reverted look
    The mystic volume of the world they read,
    Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book,
    Till life became a Legend of the Dead.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)