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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Walter Scott

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
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
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship

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