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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Walter Scott

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
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See

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