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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

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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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
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
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
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
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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