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Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall”

Book:Ballads and Other Poems

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Ballads and Other Poems

This book is a compilation of various poems, including those in the ballad style, showcasing a range of verse forms and thematic content. more

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

Country Happiness Humanity Passion Independence Meanness Imposition The World Improper

Book:Rights of Man

Source: Rights of Man

“He remembers when he was a kid, freckly and unafraid, when the world seemed like it was blissfully endless but everything still made perfect sense.”

Life Childhood Alex Childhood Memories Red White And Royal Blue Childhood Quotes

Author:Casey McQuiston

“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It resists finishing, and partly this is because words are not enough; my early world was synaesthesic, and I am haunted by the ghosts of my own sense impressions, which re-emerge when I try to write, and shiver between the lines.”

Life Past Consciousness Childhood Ghosts

Book:Giving Up the Ghost

Source: Giving Up the Ghost

“Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?”

Childhood Aging

Book:I Remain in Darkness

Source: I Remain in Darkness

“The blessedness of being little!!!”

Childhood

Author:William Shakespeare

“The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed.”

Past Childhood Aging

Author:Ilse Aichinger

“Had they not been taken, she asked, to circuses when they were children? Never, he answered, as if she asked the very thing he wanted; had been longing all these days to say, how they did not go to circuses.”

Childhood

Book:To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and every chance encounter … gave rise to fresh insights.”

Past Childhood Youth Memory

Author:Ivan Klima

“The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.”

Love Happiness Connection Feeling

Book:The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

Source: The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

“It's sort of my go-to stock image of my childhood, actually. I think it has something to do with knowing I'll never be able to go back to that time that makes me cry every time I listen to it.”

Childhood

Book:Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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