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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that’s broken!
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.