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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

Walter Scott

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
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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

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