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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

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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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But with morning cool repentance came.

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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

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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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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

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Look back, and smile on perils past.

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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, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

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I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."

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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

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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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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

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