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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

And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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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