Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Votes: 24
Look back, and smile on perils past. Votes: 8
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. Votes: 0
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact. Votes: 0
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. Votes: 0
O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar? Votes: 0
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. Votes: 0
Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. Votes: 0
I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again. Votes: 0
For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. Votes: 0
Look back, and smile on perils past! Votes: 0
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. Votes: 0
...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility. Votes: 0
A mother's pride, a father's joy. Votes: 0
A sinful heart makes feeble hand. Votes: 0
Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference. Votes: 0
Ambition is no cure for love! Votes: 0
Art thou a friend to Roderick? Votes: 0
Blud's thicker than water. Votes: 0
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. Votes: 0
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. Votes: 0
Chess is a sad waste of brains. Votes: 0
Every hour has its end. Votes: 0
Fair play is a jewel. Votes: 0
For Love will still be lord of all. Votes: 0
Give me an honest laugher. Votes: 0
I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd. Votes: 0
I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice Votes: 0
I was not always a man of woe. Votes: 0
In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying. Votes: 0
Marry in haste, repent at leisure. Votes: 0
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind. Votes: 0
Oh, poverty parts good company. Votes: 0
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy. Votes: 0
Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er. Votes: 0
Some touch of Nature's genial glow. Votes: 0
Steady of heart and stout of hand. Votes: 0
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart. Votes: 0
The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play. Votes: 0
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd. Votes: 0
The will to do, the soul to dare. Votes: 0
Threatened folk live long. Votes: 0
Time rolls his ceaseless course. Votes: 0
Treason seldom dwells with courage. Votes: 0
Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame! Votes: 0
Welcome as the flowers in May. Votes: 0
When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. Votes: 0
Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung. Votes: 0