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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Walter Scott

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
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
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant

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