Soldier, scholar, horseman, he, As 'twere all life's epitome. What made us dream that he could comb grey hair?
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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Life
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There’s a land where the mountains are nameless, And the rivers all run God knows where; There are lives that are erring and aimless, And deaths that just hang by a hair; There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There’s a land — oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back — and I will.
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Then let us pray that come it may,— As come it will for a' that,—...
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Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
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What we live by we die by.
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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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If there is another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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The only certain freedom's in departure.
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The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean....
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Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid
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The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.
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Ae fond kiss, and then we sever! A farewell, and then forever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, While the star of hope she leaves him? Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me, Dark despair around benights me.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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He would cry out on life, that what it wants Is not its own love back in copy speech, But counter-love, original response.
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
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The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy
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Ae fond kiss, and then we severA farewell, and then foreverDeep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves himMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
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My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a-flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.
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TAKE CARE TO SELL YOUR HORSE BEFORE HE DIES THE ART OF LIFE IS PASSING LOSSES ON.
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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
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