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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Walter Scott

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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

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