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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

Walter Scott

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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
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

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

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