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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

Walter Scott

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
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
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
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
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

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