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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

Walter Scott

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
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
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

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

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