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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

Walter Scott

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
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
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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

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