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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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
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
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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
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
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
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
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
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time

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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