It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty |
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth |
Look back, and smile on perils past. |
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. |
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. |
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges |
Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving. |
Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion |
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind |
O woman!- In our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade, by the light quivering aspen made; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou |
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! |
Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness |
Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive |
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 |
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. |