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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

Walter Scott

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
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
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
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
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair

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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