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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

Walter Scott

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
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
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
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue

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