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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

Walter Scott

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
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
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
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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