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

Walter Scott

A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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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Breathe Deep Repair
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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
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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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
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
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
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
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth

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