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

Walter Scott

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
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
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
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
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
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
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
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
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible

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

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