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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.
Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.
The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.
Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.