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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Walter Scott

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
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

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