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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

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
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
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible

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