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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Walter Scott

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
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
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
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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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