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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Walter Scott

Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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 sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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

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