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War is the only game in which both sides lose.

Walter Scott

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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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity

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