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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Walter Scott

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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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

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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