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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

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
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
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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 cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself

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