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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.

Walter Scott

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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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Mindset People Reality Strange
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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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Joy Nature Religious
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man

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