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

Walter Scott

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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
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
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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

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

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