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Quote by Walter Scott
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. – Walter Scott

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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott

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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. – Walter Scott

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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. – Hannah Arendt

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Anyone who doesnt take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. – Albert Einstein

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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed. – H. L. Mencken

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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. – Henry David Thoreau

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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy. – Salman Rushdie

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I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life…and Im just learning to follow the path hes laid before me. – Monica Denise Brown

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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Mans life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. – B. R. Ambedkar

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