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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.

Walter Scott

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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
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
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See

Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.

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