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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Walter Scott

And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
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
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
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
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

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