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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

Walter Scott

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
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
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
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
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
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
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.
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Breathe Deep Repair

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