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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

Walter Scott

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
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
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
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
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
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night

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