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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

Walter Scott

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
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
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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 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
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

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