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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Walter Scott

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
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
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

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