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/ page 635 of 1205 /'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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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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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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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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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.
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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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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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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Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving.
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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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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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