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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Walter Scott

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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
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
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
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
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
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

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