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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

Walter Scott

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

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