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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

Walter Scott

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
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
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
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
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success

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