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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

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
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
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
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind

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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