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

Walter Scott

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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
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
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
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

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