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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

Walter Scott

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
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
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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time

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