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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Walter Scott

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Heaven Time
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
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
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
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
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
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
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Courage Truth Virtue
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

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