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Walter Scott

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.

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