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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
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
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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 mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

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