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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.

Walter Scott

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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
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
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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

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