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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. 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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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