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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Walter Scott

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time

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