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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

Walter Scott

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
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
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
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
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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