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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

Walter Scott

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
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
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
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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

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