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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.

Walter Scott

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
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
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
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree

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