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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

Walter Scott

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
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
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

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

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