By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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