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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Walter Scott

Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy

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