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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Walter Scott

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
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
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
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation

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