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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Walter Scott

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
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
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
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
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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

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