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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.

Walter Scott

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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
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
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
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom

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