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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

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
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
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
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
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May

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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