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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

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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
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
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night

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