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

Walter Scott

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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
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
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
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
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity

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

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