Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWBy 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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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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