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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
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
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
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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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 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
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
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
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
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

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