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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

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven 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
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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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