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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

Walter Scott

And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

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