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

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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
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
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 was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
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
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
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
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
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible

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