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

Walter Scott

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
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
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
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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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