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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Walter Scott

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
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
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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
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
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

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