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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

Walter Scott

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
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
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
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
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
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

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