Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
WALTER SCOTTWhen true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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