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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

Walter Scott

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
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
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong

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