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

Walter Scott

I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself

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