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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Walter Scott

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word

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