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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

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
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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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
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
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
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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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Better History Purpose Reading
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin

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