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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

War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
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
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
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
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading

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