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

Walter Scott

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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
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
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
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
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
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
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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