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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Walter Scott

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
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
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance

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