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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.

Walter Scott

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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
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
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul

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