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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges

Walter Scott

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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
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
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
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
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges

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