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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.

Walter Scott

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
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
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 chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible

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