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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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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Bead Crow Drop Golden Hand Kill Manage Near Passer Snake
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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Element Enough Gate Great Knock Long Preserving Somebody Sucess Sure Up Wake
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Being Country Feminine Like Masculine Mingles Only Perfect Poem Rhyme Structure
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Freedom Man Out Servitude Take Thought
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Do Explain Right Take Thing Time
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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All Mind Poetic Poetical Pure Thing
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Dawn Distant Eternal Love Night Not Starless
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Art Every Goeth Grace Heart Unto Work
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Darker Drawn Nearer Night
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Defeat Ourselves People Plaudit Shout Throng
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Attempt Done Earn Night Repose Sometimes
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Above Aim Hit Little Mark Must Would
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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Crown Grace Helicon Many Mouldering Muses Old People Person Poet Sunshine Too Visit
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Best Do Get Let One Rain Thing
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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Active Charity Consist Dream Life Man See Service Vision Willing
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Come Deserve Destiny Fame Inevitable

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