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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.

Walter Scott

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
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
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
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
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success

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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