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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

Walter Scott

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
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
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
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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
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

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