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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

Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
WALTER SCOTT

Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
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
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible

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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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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