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

Walter Scott

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature

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