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

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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
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
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
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
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
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

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