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

Walter Scott

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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
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
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
WALTER SCOTT

Character Excellence Existence Strange
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
WALTER SCOTT

Animal Man Yourself
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
WALTER SCOTT

Rise Yourself
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time

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

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