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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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 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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTT

Break Deep See
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
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
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
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
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears

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