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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

Walter Scott

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
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
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
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning 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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

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