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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.

Walter Scott

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
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
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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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Freedom Privilege Story
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time

Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.

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