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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
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
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
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
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

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