All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
WALTER SCOTT
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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