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Steady of heart and stout of hand.

Walter Scott

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
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 good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

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