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

Walter Scott

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
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
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
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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

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