Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
WALTER SCOTTIt 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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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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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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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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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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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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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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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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