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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Walter Scott

The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
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

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