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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

Walter Scott

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature

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