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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

Walter Scott

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
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

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

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