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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

Walter Scott

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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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 will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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

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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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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