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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

Walter Scott

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
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
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

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