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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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 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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears

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