LET US, THEN, BE UP AND DOING, WITH A HEART FOR ANY FATE; STILL ACHIEVING, STILL PURSUING, LEARN TO LABOR AND TO WAIT. H. W. LONGFELLOW (AMERICAN POET 1807 1882)
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FOOTPRINTS, THAT PERHAPS ANOTHER, SAILING O'ER LIFE'S SOLEMN MAIN, A FORLORN AND SHIPWRECKED BROTHER, SEEING, SHALL TAKE HEART AGAIN. H. W. LONGFELLOW (AMERICAN POLT 1807 1882)
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LIVES OF GREAT MEN ALL REMIND US WE CAN MAKE OUR LIVES SUBLIME, AND, DEPARTING, LEAVE BEHIND US FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME; H. W. LONGFELLOW (AMERICAN POET 1807 1882)
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TRUST NO FUTURE, HOWE'ER PLEASANT! LET THE DEAD PAST BURY ITS DEAD! ACT, ACT IN THE LIVING PRESENT! HEART WITHIN, AND GOD O'ERHEAD! H. W. LONGFELLOW (AMERICAN POET 1807-1882)
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IN THE WORLD'S BROAD FIELD OF BATTLE, IN THE BIVOUAC OF LIFE, BE NOT LIKE DUMB, DRIVEN CATTLE! BE A HERO IN THE STRIFE! H. W. LONGFELLOW (AMERICAN POET 1807-1882)
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ART IS LONG, AND TIME IS FLEETING, AND OUR HEARTS, THOUGH STOUT AND BRAVE, STILL, LIKE MUFFLED DRUMS, ARE BEATING FUNERAL MARCHES TO THE GRAVE. H. W. LONGFELLOW (AMERICAN POET 1807-1882)
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NOT ENJOYMENT, AND NOT SORROW, IS OUR DESTINED END OR WAY, BUT TO ACT, THAT EACH TO-MORROW FIND US FARTHER THAN TO-DAY H. W. LONGFELLOW (AMERICAN POET 1807 1882)
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DEFEAT, MY DEFEAT, MY BOLD COMPANION, YOU SHALL HEAR MY SONGS AND MY CRIES AND MY SILENCES, AND NONE BUT YOU SHALL SPEAK TO ME OF THE BEATING OF WINGS, AND URGING OF SEAS, AND OF MOUNTAINS THAT BURN IN THE NIGHT, AND YOU ALONE SHALL CLIMB MY STEEP AND ROCKY SOUL KHALIL GIBRAN (LEBANESE WRITER 1885-1951)
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DEFEAT, MY DEFEAT, MY SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND MY DEFIANCE, THROUGH YOU I KNOW THAT I AM YET YOUNG AND SWIFT OF FOOT AND NOT TO BE TRAPPED BY WITHERING LAURELS. AND IN YOU I HAVE FOUND ALONENESS AND THE JOY OF BEING SHUNNED AND SCORNED KHALIL GIBRAN (LEBANESE WRITER 1885-1951)
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DEFEAT, MY DEFEAT, MY SOLITUDE AND MY ALOOFNESS YOU ARE DEARER TO ME THAN A THOUSAND TRIUMPHS, AND SWEETER TO MY HEART THAN ALL WORLD-GLORY. KHALIL GIBRAN (LEBANESE WRITER 1885-1951)
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BEYOND THIS PLACE OF WRATH AND TEARS LOOMS BUT THE HORROR OF THE SHADE, AND YET THE MENACE OF THE YEARS FINDS AND SHALL FIND ME UNAFRAID. WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (ENGLISH WRITER 1849-1903)
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IT MATTERS NOT HOW STRAIT THE GATE, HOW CHARGED WITH PUNISHMENTS THE SCROLL, I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE, I AM THE CAPTAIN OF MY SOUL. WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (ENGLISH WRITER 1849-1903)