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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

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
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
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
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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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
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
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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
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
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important 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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship

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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