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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Walter Scott

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
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

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