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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

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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

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