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I'll dream no more
by mainly mind
Not even in sleep is well resigned.
My midnight orisons said o'er,
I'll turn to rest and dream no more.

Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!

There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time.

As living in this ideal world became daily more delectable to our hero, interruption was disagreeable in proportion. The

November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.

Still are the thoughts to memory dear.

Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

The will to do, the soul to dare.

Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.

Volume I Chapter I Introductory

By profession an observer of tones and gestures,

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.

But with morning cool repentance came.

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

Fair play is a jewel.

Every hour has its end.

Welcome as the flowers in May.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Lawyer's anxiety about the fate of the most interesting cause has seldom spoiled either his sleep or digestion.

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

Give me an honest laugher.

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base, as soon as I.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

God will raise me up a champion."
~ Rebecca (Ivanhoe)

Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.

Each must drain
His share of pleasure, share of pain.

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.

Hail to the chief in triumph advances.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.

Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.

Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.

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

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.

there are stratagems in law as well as war.

We resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us.

Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,
Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.

Ambition is no cure for love!

Oh, poverty parts good company.

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

Hunger and fear are excellent casuists.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.

Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle?

Love, to her ear, was but a name,
Combin'd with vanity and shame;
Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all
Bounded within the cloister wall.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

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

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

Chapter XX Happy's the wooing That's not long a-doing

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.

It is the pest of our profession that we seldom see the best side of human nature.

Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period.

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.

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

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

Necessity
thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here ... God bless you all.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Some touch of Nature's genial glow.

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.