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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.

Walter Scott

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
WALTER SCOTT

Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
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!
WALTER SCOTT

Freedom Man Myself Yourself
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTT

Guide Life Perfection Reason
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
WALTER SCOTT

Break Law Myself Word
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
WALTER SCOTT

Breathe Deep Repair
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.
WALTER SCOTT

Life Rise Wake Up
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
WALTER SCOTT

Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
WALTER SCOTT

Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
WALTER SCOTT

Bright Fear Hope
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
WALTER SCOTT

Mindset People Reality Strange
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
WALTER SCOTT

Animal Mystery
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
WALTER SCOTT

Animal Man Yourself
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
WALTER SCOTT

Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
WALTER SCOTT

Eduacation Hands Man Worth
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
WALTER SCOTT

Hands Heart Sin
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
WALTER SCOTT

Growth Hard Time Plant

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