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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Walter Scott

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
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
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
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
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

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