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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

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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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

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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