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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

Walter Scott

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
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
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
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
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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

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