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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.

Walter Scott

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
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live

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