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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.
In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.
Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.
Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.
If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.
Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.
True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?