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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.

Walter Scott

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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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 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
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
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
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange

Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.

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