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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Walter Scott

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
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

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