Still believe that ever round you Spirits float who watch and wait; Nor forget the twain who found you Sleeping nigh the Golden Gate.


Sir Walter Besant and J. Rice

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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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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 faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
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No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
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But with morning cool repentance came.
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Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, ...
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
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Then, wearied by the uncertainty and difficulties with which each scheme appeared to be attended, he...
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall for...
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If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
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No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
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We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
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Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
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A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.
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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?
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But with the morning cool repentance came.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Do what you should, not what you may.
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After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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Consider an enemy may become a friend.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be;
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Go, Soul, the body
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.
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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
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Oh what a tangled web we weave,
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The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of...
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Contentious fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it...
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Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
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Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, ...
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Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.
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And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.
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Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings wel...
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Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry ...
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh an...
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The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but death who comes at last.
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To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant;
And many a word, at ran...
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And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses.
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With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
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The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the weste...
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Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Ye...
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Art thou a friend to Roderick?
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Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea, The orange flower perfumes the bow...
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That day of wrath, that dreadful day, when heaven and earth shall pass away.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through
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The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, ...
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I am enamoured of my journal
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Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown
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True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
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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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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
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He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
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Scared out of his seven senses.
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O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
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The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.
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Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, ...
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It [true love] is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, ...
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
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England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach...
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In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
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In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
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Delightful praise!--like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows, The bashful maiden'...
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Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
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St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high; "I drink to one," he sa...
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Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
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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, ...
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Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
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Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
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It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
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It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thi...
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I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
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He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.
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He who profits by a crime, commits it.
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He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he ...
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He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
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He makes a great row but does nothing.
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He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
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Fidelity, purchased with money, money can destroy.
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Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.
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Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works...
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Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
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Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
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Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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As many servants so many enemies.
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An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
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A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
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Time rolls his ceaseless course.
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Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
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You whirled them to the back of beyont.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...
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Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth
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Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to et...
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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 gi...
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Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or...
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