Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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