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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

Walter Scott

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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
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
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
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
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit 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
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
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

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