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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

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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 sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
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
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
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant

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