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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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Dawn Distant Eternal Love Night Not Starless
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Begun Close Each Evening Morning See Some Task
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Defeat Ourselves People Plaudit Shout Throng
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Attain Companion Fight Great Height Kept Man Raech Slept Sudan Toil
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Criticism Criticize Lie Strength Thing Weakmnness
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Mind Poetic Poetical Pure Thing
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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Another Darkness Ocean Pass Shown Signal Silence Speak
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Again Forth Fountain Return Send Which
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Benefit Devotion Enemy Fold Hand Intension Man Strength Whoever
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Common Each Fate Into Let Life Must Fail Rain Some Then
Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Affection never Talk Waste
It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Beautiful Character Evil Love Loved Object Trait
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Always Combine Courtesy Golden House Intelligence Often Room Wooden
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Deserve Do Fame Nothing Sort Sucess Talent Through Well Whatever Without
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Come Deserve Destiny Fame Inevitable
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Enough Gate Knock Last Only Somebody Wake

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