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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.

Walter Scott

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
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
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success

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