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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

Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
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
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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

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