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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.

Walter Scott

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
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
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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

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