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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

Walter Scott

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
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
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
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
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
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

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