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Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.


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Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.



To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.



A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.



All love is lost but upon God alone.

All love is lost but upon God alone.



London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.



Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.



Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false warld is but transitory.

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false warld is but transitory.



Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.



Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.

Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.



Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.

Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.





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The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.



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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.



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Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.



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Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.



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I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.



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In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.



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How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!



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Your mind and your luck determine your destiny!



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