People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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