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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

Walter Scott

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time

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