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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad . . . and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o' clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading; it vexes me to choose another guide.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?


The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.


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