Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTTThose who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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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.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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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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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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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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