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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

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Look back, and smile on perils past.

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: August 15th, 1771

Died: September 21st, 1832

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