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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

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
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
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven Mortal
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
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
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
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
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
WALTER SCOTT

Character Excellence Existence Strange

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