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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Walter Scott

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
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
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
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

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