And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.
Sir Walter Scott
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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(translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring)
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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death
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
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O many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken
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We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
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Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Heap on more wood! The wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
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