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

Walter Scott

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
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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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
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
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
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up

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

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