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

Walter Scott

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature

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