There is a southern proverb fine words butter no parsnips.
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Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries.Walter Scott
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever.
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Good wine needs neither bush nor preface To make it welcome.
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