The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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