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

Walter Scott

And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
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
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
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
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time

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