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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

Walter Scott

Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
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
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

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