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

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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
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
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself

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

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