"Rule by patience, Laughing Water!"

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.”
“Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.”
“With Halloween on a Monday this year, that gives people a chance to have parties on Friday, Saturday or Sunday.”
“As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.”
“Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!”
“Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.”
“That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.”
“It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.”

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