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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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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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