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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Walter Scott

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success

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