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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

Walter Scott

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
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
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
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 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

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