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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

Walter Scott

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
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
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man

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