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

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
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
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
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
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
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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

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