Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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