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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

Walter Scott

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
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
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
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
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

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