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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

Walter Scott

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
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
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

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