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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Walter Scott

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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
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
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
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

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