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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

Walter Scott

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
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
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
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
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge

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