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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.

Walter Scott

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
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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
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
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin

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