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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Walter Scott

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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
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
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself

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