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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Walter Scott

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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

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