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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

Walter Scott

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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile

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