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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

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTT

Dream Equality Light Night
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
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
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice

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