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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.

Walter Scott

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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible

Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.

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