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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Walter Scott

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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

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