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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

Walter Scott

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
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
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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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Rise Yourself
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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Joy Nature Religious
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
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
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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Friendship Myself Right Wrong

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