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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

Walter Scott

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
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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

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