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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Walter Scott

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success

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