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" 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. "
The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 224
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 580 pages
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Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South

Emily Herring Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 230 pages
...knows and loves is from Longfellow's Hyperion: "Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go...shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart." Anna Lee McKenzie. Southport, North Carolina. Born in 1894, Mrs. McKenzie has lived all her life on...
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Framing History: The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War

Virginia Carmichael - Social Science - 1993 - 332 pages
...skirts, and pushed his knee into her crotch. Some argument" (104). Uncle Sam admonishes his audience to "Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart on," his masculist dogma operating to organize data and human behavior into what is best for him: "It...
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Lincoln in American Memory

Merrill D. Peterson - History - 1995 - 493 pages
...our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts," which compares to the poet's "Go forth to meet the Shadowy Future without fear, and with a manly heart" — a transcription so literal, Schuyler thought, as to be beyond the reproach of plagiarism. "Lincoln's...
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The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain

Susan K. Harris - Literary Collections - 1996 - 228 pages
...passage speaks direcdy to her, counseling her to "Look not mournfully into the Past," but rather to "improve the Present; it is thine - Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear, and with a brave and manly heart" (19). As with many of the passages Langdon copied, here the reader the text...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Book of Revelation

Stan Campbell, James S. Bell - Religion - 2001 - 326 pages
...Benedict, quoted by Margaret Mead Apoca-Lips Now "Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go...shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart." —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow When it comes to future events, we are taught to hedge our bets. We buy...
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The Diary of Bishop Frederic Baraga: First Bishop of Marquette, Michigan

Regis M. Walling, N. Daniel Rupp - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 350 pages
...clipping is attached: "Past. Present and Future. Look not mournfully into the past; it cannot return. Wisely improve the present — it is thine; go forth...shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart." 140Margaret Sagima of Little Traverse entered the Ursuline community in June. D, JuneS, 1859. take...
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Little Book of Bathroom Meditations: Spiritual Wisdom for Every Day

Life - 210 pages
...William Ostler, 19th-century Canadian physician 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. ~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 19th-century American poet Health is my expected heaven. — John Keats,...
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Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Volume One)

Samuel Longfellow - Poets, American - 2004 - 481 pages
...and grant to him at last a joyful resurrection. Look not mournfully into the Past, it comes not back again ; wisely improve the Present, it is thine ;...shadowy Future without fear, and with a manly heart. Botzen on his way into Italy. But a trifle may often change one's plans, and sometimes with important...
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Love the Life You Live: 3 Secrets to Feeling Good, Deep Down in Your Soul

Les Parrott, Neil Clark Warren - Religion - 2004 - 290 pages
...woman who falls into a rut of blaming her disteLook not mournfully into the past It conies not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. Henry Wadtwortk Langfellow spectful behavior toward her children on the depression she suffers over...
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Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies

John F. Marszalek - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 364 pages
...the words he said he tried to live by: "'Look not mournfully upon the past; it comes not back again. Improve the present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future with a firm step and a manly heart.'"71 These were apt words for the twenty-five-year old H. Wager...
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