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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Walter Scott

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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
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

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