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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

Walter Scott

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
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
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

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