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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Walter Scott

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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
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
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven 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
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

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