Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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