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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

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
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
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
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
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
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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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself

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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