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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.

Walter Scott

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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

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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