Wadsworth Longfellow

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    “Pride and humiliation hand in hand
    Walked with them through the world where’er they went;
    Trampled and beaten were they as the sand,
    And yet unshaken as the continent.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing,
    Onward through life he goes;
    Each morning sees some task begin,
    Each evening sees its close;
    Something attempted, something done,
    Has earned a night’s repose.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)