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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Walter Scott

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
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
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
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
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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