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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.

Walter Scott

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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
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
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
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time

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