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• The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun.
  The brightness of our life is gone, shadows of the evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection itself- a broader shadow....
• I saw Eternity the other night, / Like a great ring of pure and endless light, / All calm, as it was brigh
  / And round beneath it, / Time in hours, days, years, / Driv'n by the spheres / Like a vast shadow mov'd...
• I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was brigh
  And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled....
• 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...
• In this world a man must be either anvil or hammer. -- Longfellow
• Where there is much light there is also much shadow. -- Goethe
• The world is wide and beautiful. But almost everywhere, everywhere, the children are dying.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• 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