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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Walter Scott

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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
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
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 chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
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
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

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