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The will to do, the soul to dare.

Walter Scott

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
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
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
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
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope

The will to do, the soul to dare.

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