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

Walter Scott

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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
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
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
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
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin

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

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