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Walter Scott

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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Freedom Man Myself Yourself
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World

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