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Walter Scott

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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

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