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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

My name is Death: the last best friend am I.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.

Man hath a weary pilgrimage,
As through the word he wends;
On every stage, from youth to age,
Still discontent attends.

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

Happy those
Who in the after-days shall live, when Time
Hath spoken, and the multitude of years
Taught wisdom to mankind!

From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

If you would be pungent, be brief.

Ye who dwell at home,
Ye do not know the terrors of the main.

Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 't is the happy that have called thee so.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in
as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them
annoy others.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken
the manner, the place and the time.

The laws are with us, and God on our side.

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon Divine Rolls through the dark-blue depths.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.

(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail
To find some reason why the poor deserve
Their miseries.

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

And when my own Mark Antony
Against young Caesar strove,
And Rome's whole world was set in arms,
The cause was,
all for love.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

There is healing in the bitter cup.