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Linguist Inspirational Quotes (10872)

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Still are the thoughts to memory dear.
Walter Scott
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Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
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For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
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There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
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Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
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Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
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Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.
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High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!
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Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Walter Scott
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