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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
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
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
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
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

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