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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Walter Scott

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
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
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

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