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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

Walter Scott

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
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
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
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

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