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

Walter Scott

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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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

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

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