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

Walter Scott

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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
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
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
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin

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

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