In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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