It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
WALTER SCOTTWithout courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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