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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

Walter Scott

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
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
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
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
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
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
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

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