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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

Walter Scott

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
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
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
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

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

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