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Walter Scott

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
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
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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.

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