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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

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
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
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
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
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
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind

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