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• Tell me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!
  For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem....
• Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate
  Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait....
• Life is real! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal
  Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul....
• Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
  Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!...
• O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksand
  life hath snares! -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Maidenhood...
• The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Resignatio...
• 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, and with a manly heart....
• She floats upon the river of his thoughts. -- Henry W.
  Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Spanish Student, Act ii, Sc. 3...
• Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
  Marcus Aureliu...