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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.

Walter Scott

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree

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