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| Death is dreadful, but in the first springtime of youth, to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling | | Death and dying | |
| Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. | | Discretion | |
| Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for festal cheer | | New Year | |
| Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. | | Uncategorized | |
| He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. | | Adversity; Belief; Overcoming | |
| He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round | | Uncategorized | |
| He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. | | Uncategorized | |
| Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. | | Christmas; Poems | |
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| Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet | | Heaven | |
| Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears | | Hope | |
| How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. | | Family | |
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| I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through | | Uncategorized | |
| I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me | | Uncategorized | |
| I like a Highland friend who will stand by me, not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong | | Uncategorized | |
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| If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the pat | | Uncategorized | |
| If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it | | Uncategorized | |
