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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

Walter Scott

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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Life Rise Wake Up
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
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
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
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
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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Rise Yourself
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
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

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

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