Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Stood for his countrys glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast.Walter Scott
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty for your active excretions are due not only to society but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.
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Soldier rest thy warfare oer, Sleep the sleep thast knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking.
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