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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

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
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
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope

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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