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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Walter Scott

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
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
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
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late

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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