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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

Walter Scott

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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

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