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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Walter Scott

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

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