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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

Walter Scott

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
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
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

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