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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.

Walter Scott

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful

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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