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

Walter Scott

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
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
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
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

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