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• Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Ladder of Saint Augustine...
• The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Day is done...
• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
  -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- A Psalm of Life...
• Look, then, into thine heart, and write! -- Henry W.
  Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Voices of the Night, Prelude...
• You were ever good at sudden commendations. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry VIII
• 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