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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Walter Scott

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
WALTER SCOTT

Eduacation Hands Man Worth
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
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
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion

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