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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

Walter Scott

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
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
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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 build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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

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