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

Walter Scott

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
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
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
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

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