Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. "

" It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. "

" The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. "

" What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. "

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

" 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. "

" There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. "

" We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. "

" How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. "

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

" To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. "

" When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. "

" 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! "

" To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. "

" He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. "

" Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. "

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

" Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. "

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

" For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. "

" O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! "

" Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. "

" To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. "

" Look back, and smile on perils past. "

" A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. "