Death is dreadful, but in the first springtime of youth, to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling
Sir Walter Scott
Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for festal cheer
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Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow
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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me
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Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity
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True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
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