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Steady of heart and stout of hand.

Walter Scott

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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
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
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

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