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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Walter Scott

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
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair

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