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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.

Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
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
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong

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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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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