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" A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. "
Lawyer
History
Literature
" All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. "
Education
Hand
Worth
" A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. "
Will
Compass
Faithful
" Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. "
Us
Guide
Reason
" Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. "
Each
Cheer
Time
" Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. "
Most
Us
Faces
" For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. "
Ability
Success
Attitude
" He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. "
Wind
Obstacles
Power
" He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. "
Suit
Tall
Tree
" How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. "
Father
Shadow
Parenting
" If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. "
Barn
Empty
Farmer
" If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once. "
Side
Up
You
" It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. "
Energy
Strength
Duty
" Look back, and smile on perils past. "
Back
Past
Smile
" Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. "
Heaven
Love
Love Is
" Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. "
Miles
Lake
Door
" Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. "
Greatness
Most
Drinking
" 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! "
Random
Broken
Heart
" 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. "
Men
Action
Chance
" O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! "
First
Weave
Web
" Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. "
Awake
Desire
Mind
" Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. "
Attitude
Business
Failure
" Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. "
Wisdom
Grace
Children
" The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. "
Me
My Life
Life
" The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. "
Right
Race
Power
" There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. "
Religion
Matters
Historical
" To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. "
Dreams
Fair
Pleasing
" To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. "
Virtue
Glory
Honor
" To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. "
Impossible
Seems
Everything
" Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. "
Tree
Autumn
Fruit
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