By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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