By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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