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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

Walter Scott

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
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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Heaven Love Man
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
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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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent

And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

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