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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Walter Scott

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
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
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
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age 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
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
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
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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 misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion

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