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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

Walter Scott

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
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
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
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
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
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
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

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