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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists 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
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
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
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears

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