Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWe judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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