People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLike a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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