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

Walter Scott

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
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange

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

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