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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.

Walter Scott

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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature

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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