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

Walter Scott

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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge

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