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.
WALTER SCOTTRecollect 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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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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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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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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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