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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Walter Scott

November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

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