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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

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
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
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
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
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice

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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