Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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