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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

Walter Scott

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
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
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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 chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
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
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

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