Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
WALTER SCOTTDo not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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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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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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