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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

Walter Scott

And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
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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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
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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Better History Purpose Reading

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