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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Walter Scott

Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
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
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Attitude Business Failure Success
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
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
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
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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 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
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Friendship Myself Right Wrong
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
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
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
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
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

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