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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

Walter Scott

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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

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