“ Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. ”
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“ All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. ”
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“ We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. ”
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“ All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. ”
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“ We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. ”
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“ And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers. ”
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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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“ If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once. ”
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“ What remains?" cried Ivanhoe; "Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name. ”
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“ Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping. ”
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“ A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. ”
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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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“ In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven. ”
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“ In listening mood she seemed to stand,The guardian Naiad of the strand. ”
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“ You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness. ”
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“ And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. ”
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“ The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. ”
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“ And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. ”
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“ Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours — ambition is the serious business of life. ”
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“ The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact. ”
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“ And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. ”
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“ Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours — ambition is the serious business of life. ”
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“ Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! ”
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“ Delightful praise! — like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows, The bashful maiden's cheek appear'd, For Douglas spoke, and Malcolm heard. ”
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