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Steady of heart and stout of hand.

Walter Scott

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
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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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
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
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
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
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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
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

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

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