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

Walter Scott

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
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
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
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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 chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind

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