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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.

Walter Scott

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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
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
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
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
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful

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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