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

Walter Scott

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
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
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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
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

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