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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

November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
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
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
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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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious

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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