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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.

Walter Scott

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
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
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

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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