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

Walter Scott

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
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
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
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 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
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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Heaven Love Man
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up

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

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