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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Walter Scott

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late

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