By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAll things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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