Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
From James Russell Lowell
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
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