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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Walter Scott

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
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
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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

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