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

Walter Scott

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
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
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
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
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

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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