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

Walter Scott

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
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance

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