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Steady of heart and stout of hand.

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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
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
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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