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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.

Walter Scott

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind

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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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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