"Why don't you speak for yourself John?"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Identity, Self, Speech, Individual

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Craig Groeschel, American Author

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"Into each life some rain must fall."

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"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

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"Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining."

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"Sadly as some old mediaeval knightGazed at the arms he could no longer wield,The sword two-handed and the shining shieldSuspended in the hall, and full in sight,While secret longings for the lost delightOf tourney or adventure in the fieldCame over him, and tears but half concealedTrembled and fell upon his beard of white,So I behold these books upon their shelf,My ornaments and arms of other days;Not wholly useless, though no longer used,For they remind me of my other self,Younger and stronger, and the pleasant waysIn which I walked, now clouded and confused."

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"Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought."

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"A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain."

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"O, never from the memory of my heartYour dear, paternal image shall depart,Who while on earth, ere yet by death surprised,Taught me how mortals are immortalized;How grateful am I for that patient careAll my life long my language shall declare."

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"Resolve, and thou art free."

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"Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are."

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