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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Walter Scott

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
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
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky

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