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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

Walter Scott

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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
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
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

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