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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

Walter Scott

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
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
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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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