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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Walter Scott

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
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
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul

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