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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

Walter Scott

Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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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