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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Walter Scott

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
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
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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

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