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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

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
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
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
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
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
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
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
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
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality

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