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Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.

Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fate, Over You, Common

For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fate, Voice, Rivers
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1992). “Favorite Poems”, p.48, Courier Corporation

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fate, Destiny, Literature
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1877, Delphi Classics

That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings Of that mysterious instrument, the soul, And play the prelude of our fate. We hear The voice prophetic, and are not alone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life, Song, Fate
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.108

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fate, Joy, Sorrow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1891). “The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Heart, Fate, Destiny
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.49

A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Heart, Fate, Grind
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.114

All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wall, Fate, Deeds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.136, Library of America

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