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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Walter Scott

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
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

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