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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk

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