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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Walter Scott

Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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

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