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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

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night

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