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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

Walter Scott

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
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
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness

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