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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

Walter Scott

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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Better History Purpose Reading
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
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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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Children Grace Poetry Teaching Virtue Wisdom
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
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time

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