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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

Walter Scott

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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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

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