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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Walter Scott

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness

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