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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?

Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
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
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange

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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