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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

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
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
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
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
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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Better History Purpose Reading
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion

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