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Steady of heart and stout of hand.

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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
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
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

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