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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.

Walter Scott

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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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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Deal Goodness Love
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth

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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