The future is purchased by the present.
Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
A fence should be horse high, hog tight and bull strong.
First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
All men would be cowards if they could.
O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
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