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

Walter Scott

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
Those 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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