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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
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
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope

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