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…

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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps...

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps...

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused...

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused...

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their...

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their...

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps...

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps...

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of...

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of...

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter...

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter...

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover,...

To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover,...

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on...

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on...

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to...

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to...

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any...

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any...

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and...

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and...

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the...

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the...