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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

Walter Scott

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
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
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
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity

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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