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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

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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope

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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