"We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature."
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"The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation."
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"An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate."
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"I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me."
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"The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain"
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"There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul."
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"Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood."
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"Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men."
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"O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll.""
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"Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them."
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"I believe in an ultimate decency of things."
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"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."
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"It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken."
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"Wine is bottled poetry."
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"I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly."
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"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."
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"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."
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"A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted."
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"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."
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"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"
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