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• God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.
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• With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Masque of Pandora, Chorus of the Eumenide...
• Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know erelong,-- Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Light of Sta...
• No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own.
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• A banner with the strange device. -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Excelsio
• The prayer of Ajax was for light. -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Goblet of Life
• The star of the unconquered will. -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Light of Sta
• This is the forest primeval. -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Evangeline, Part i
• 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
  hat man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number....