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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

Walter Scott

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
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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
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
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
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
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live

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