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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

Walter Scott

And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

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