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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges

Walter Scott

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
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
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
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
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
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges

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