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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

Walter Scott

Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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 paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

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