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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
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
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
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
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
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

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

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