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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

Walter Scott

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

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