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

Walter Scott

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
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
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality

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