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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
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
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin

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