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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.

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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
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
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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

A sinful heart makes feeble hand.

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