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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Walter Scott

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
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
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
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
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
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
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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