Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

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