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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

Walter Scott

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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
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
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent

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