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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

Walter Scott

November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
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
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
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
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

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