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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

Walter Scott

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
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
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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Heaven Love Man
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time

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