Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWOnly a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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