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

Walter Scott

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
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
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
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
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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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