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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

Walter Scott

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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
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
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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

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