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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Walter Scott

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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
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
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
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

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