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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.

Walter Scott

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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 a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
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
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
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
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night

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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