From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTHeap 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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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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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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