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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Walter Scott

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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

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