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

Walter Scott

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
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
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
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
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

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

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