The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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 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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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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