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- Men
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
- Man
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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.
- Love
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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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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
- Mind
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
- Fruit
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
- Heart
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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!
- Honor
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
- Person
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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.
- Door
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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.
- Empty
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
- Look
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
- Business
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
- Life
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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.
- Rise
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
- Help
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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.
- Faithful
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
- Purpose
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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.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Chance
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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.
- Mind
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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
- Perfection
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