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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
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
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
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
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
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up

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