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

Walter Scott

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

Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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 good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
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
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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

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