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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Walter Scott

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible

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