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

Walter Scott

Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
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
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
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
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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

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

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