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

Walter Scott

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness

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