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

Walter Scott

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
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
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
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
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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Man Myself Wake Up
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin

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