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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

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
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
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
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
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
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
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality

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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