Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
WALTER SCOTTDo not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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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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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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