The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.
- David Mallet
Moon, Owl, Solitary, Mournful
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
- David Mallet
Humility, Honor, Wholesome, Affliction
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
- David Mallet
Deserve, Will, Deeds, Courted
A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.
- David Mallet
Noble, Public, Great Example, Forms
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
- David Mallet
Soul, Fell, Thee, Despair
True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
- David Mallet
Strong, Alike, Meets, Events
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
- David Mallet
Never, Fortune, Himself, Hath
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