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

Walter Scott

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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth

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