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"Hospitality sitting with Gladness."
Henry W. Longfellow / Translation from Frithiof's Saga.
Translation from Frithiof's Saga.
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"Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers."
Henry W. Longfellow / Motto, Hyperion. Book i.
Motto, Hyperion. Book i.
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"Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn."
Henry W. Longfellow / Hyperion. Book ii.
Hyperion. Book ii.
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"Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number."
Henry W. Longfellow / Hyperion. Book iv. Chap. viii.
Hyperion. Book iv. Chap. viii.
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"There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery."
Henry W. Longfellow / Inferno. Canto v. Line 121.
Inferno. Canto v. Line 121.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain