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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Walter Scott

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
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

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