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| Courage | The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, the best of circumstances. |
| Courage | Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner. |
| Courage | Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner. |
| Criticism | When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition. |
| Immortality | The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. |
| Despair | I will indulge my sorrows, and give way To all the pangs and fury of despair. |
| Destiny | My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. |
| Difference | If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. |
| Duty | Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty. |
| Duty | In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. |
| Echo | Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again. |
| Economy | The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.". |
| Education | Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. |
| Eternity | Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! |
| Experience | If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. |
| Fame | Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. |
| Familiarity | When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. |
| Fate | The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato, and of Rome. |
| Friendship | Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. |
| Friendship | The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; Ours has severest virtue for its basis, And such a friendship ends not but with life. |
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