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

Walter Scott

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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age 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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
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 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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy

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