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Steady of heart and stout of hand.

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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
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
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
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
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

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