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

Walter Scott

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
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
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
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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

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

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