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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.

Walter Scott

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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
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

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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