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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

Walter Scott

Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

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