Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWShips that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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