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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

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
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
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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

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