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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

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself

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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