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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

Walter Scott

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
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
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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

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