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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
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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
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
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
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
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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

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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