Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
WALTER SCOTT
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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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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