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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.

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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope

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