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Linguist Inspirational Quotes (10872)

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Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly, Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky. Then let the good Thy mighty name revere, And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
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Ambition is no cure for love!
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For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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I was not always a man of woe.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.
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Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.
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In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.
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Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Every hour has its end.
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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 fool's wild speech confounds the wise.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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