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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Walter Scott

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
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
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

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