Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets...

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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The highest result of education is tolerance.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

—Russell Baker

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Unless you've touched a corpse before, you can't comprehend the visceral wrongness of inert flesh wrapped around an inanimate object that wears your mother's face. You feel sick with guilt and regret and sadness about inconsequential anecdote. You can't remember anything thoughtful or sweet or tender that you ever did even though logically you know you must have. All you can recall is how often you were small and petty and false. She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and now she's gone.

—Elan Mastai in All Our Wrong Todays

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Perhaps it is the greater grief to be left on earth when another is gone.

—Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

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You usually can't recall all the people you've shared laughs with. But you rarely forget the people you've shared your tears with.

—Mya Robarts in The V Girl

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Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness.

—Isabel Allende in My Invented Country

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