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Steady of heart and stout of hand.

Walter Scott

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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

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