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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

Walter Scott

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
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

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

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