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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

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
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
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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

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

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