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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

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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
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
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
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
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
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
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late

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

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