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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.

Walter Scott

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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
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
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
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
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

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