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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

Walter Scott

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
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
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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

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