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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

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
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
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
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible

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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