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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Walter Scott

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
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
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
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
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself

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