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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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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
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
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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself

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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