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

Walter Scott

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
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
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful

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