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The will to do, the soul to dare.

Walter Scott

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
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
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible

The will to do, the soul to dare.

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