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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

Walter Scott

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
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
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
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
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
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 only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
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
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
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

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