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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

Walter Scott

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
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
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
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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

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