To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
WALTER SCOTT
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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