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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

Walter Scott

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

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