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

Walter Scott

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
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
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
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 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
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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself

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