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

Walter Scott

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning 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
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
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth

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