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Walter Scott

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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
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
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
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
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
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
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
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy

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