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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.

Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
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 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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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
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
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion

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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