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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.

Walter Scott

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
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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
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
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
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
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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

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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