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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

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
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
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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

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