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

Walter Scott

The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
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
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 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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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
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

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