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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.

Walter Scott

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind

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