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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Walter Scott

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
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
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
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
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
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
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
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
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
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
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

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