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War is the only game in which both sides lose.

Walter Scott

A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
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
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important 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
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See

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