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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Walter Scott

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
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
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
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
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
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
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Born Fight Man Myself Way World
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
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

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