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Walter Scott

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
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
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
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears

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