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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

Walter Scott

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
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

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