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

Walter Scott

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
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
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
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue

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