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«Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.»

Author: Aeschylus (Dramatist, Playwright) | About: Mankind, Prosperity | Keywords: blown, blown up, craves, cries, mansions, opulent, passer-by, Passer, passers, pointed, totter, tottering, totters, warns, with pride

«There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.»

Author: Vincent van Gogh (Painter) | Keywords: fire, Great Fire, passer-by, Passer, passers, smoke, smokes, smoke out, warmer, warm up, wisp

«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.»

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | About: Control, Strength | Keywords: bead, beads, crow, crowing, dropping, droppings, managed, method, passer-by, Passer, passers, snake, The Crow

«The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.»

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Author, Essayist, Poet) | About: Body | Keywords: crying, House of, passer-by, Passer, passers, windows

«One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.»

Author: Vincent van Gogh (Painter) | About: Home, Soul | Keywords: blazed, blazes, blazing, chimney, chimneys, hearth, hearths, on the way, passer-by, Passersby, sit by, smoke, wisp

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