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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy

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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