Sir Scott
Sir Scott
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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
cheer christmas half heart oft poor
'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.
scorn
Better that they had ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn
daylight elbow ride safe says
Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
drinking greatness vices
Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness
animals aware cats folk minds mysterious passing
Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
deceive oh practice tangled web
Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive
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It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent
believed blest fair girl knew mourn thee thus
Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving.
death final last
Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
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O woman!- In our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade, by the light quivering aspen made; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou
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Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow
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Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
both influence source strength weakness
You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness . . .