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

Walter Scott

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
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
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
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
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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

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