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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

Walter Scott

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
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
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
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
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
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself

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