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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Walter Scott

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up

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