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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.

Walter Scott

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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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 crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
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

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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