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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.

Walter Scott

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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
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
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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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

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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