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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

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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.
WALTER SCOTT

Mindset People Reality Strange
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
WALTER SCOTT

Change Nature Season Sky
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
WALTER SCOTT

Animal Mindset Mystery Pass
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
WALTER SCOTT

Age Time
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
WALTER SCOTT

Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
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
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.
WALTER SCOTT

Life Rise Wake Up
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
WALTER SCOTT

Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful

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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