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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.

Walter Scott

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
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
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
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

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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