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

Walter Scott

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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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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

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