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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Walter Scott

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
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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Heaven Love Man
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
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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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