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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

Walter Scott

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature

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