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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Walter Scott

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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 willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
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
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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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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

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