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- All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
- If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you…
- All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
- Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.
- Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
- The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
- The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there…
- A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us…
- To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude.
- Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself…
- I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do…
- The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.
- The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee…
- To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share…
- Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
- O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!
- But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all…
- The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man…
- All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another…
- ...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do…
- For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences…
- Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet…
- It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . .…
- We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
- Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters…
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