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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
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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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
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
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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
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
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

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