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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

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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
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 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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World

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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