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375 Scottish Quotes

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Countless Inhumanity Makes Man
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Adorn Our Violets Wet
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Dare Fear Honest Labor
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Always Character Complaint Cowardly
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The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Before Friend Us Wide
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And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

About Begins Creation Lords
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Critics Fame Paths Those
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Armor Heavy More Protects
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Defensive Existence Favourite Mind
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Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

About Cant Characters Decorum
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I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

Affection Extremely Often Part
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There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

Am Anyone Arts Falsehood
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I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.

Am Daily Foresee I Am
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The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.

Cheerfully Onsideration Darling Every
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There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

Alive Am Anything Country
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There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Conscience Frame Man Me
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The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

Ambition Continue Deserve Exalted
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In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.
Believe Conscience Fire Has-Been
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Alone Bread Creature Lives
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Day Each Harvest Judge
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Friend Gift Give You
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Business Continue Fail Good
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Care Cultivate Eyes Garden
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Cruelest Lies Often Silence
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Between Come Difference Dinner
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Change Changes Does Essence
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Accept Actually Challenge Full
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Any Apart Fame Gods
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Dead Finds Language Prepared
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Become Becoming Capable End
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Friendship Marriage Police Recognized
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Everyone lives by selling something.

Everyone Lives Selling Something
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books Enough Good Life
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Foreign Lands Only Traveler
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Cannot Clock Fortune Frightened
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Necessary Only Perhaps Politics
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Ashamed Know Parliament
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Business Calls Devotion His
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Body Come Crying House
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Cases Dies Hard Man
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Banquet Consequences Down Everybody
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Action Appears Good Inevitable
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Wine is bottled poetry.
Bottled Poetry Wine
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Another Endless Happily Leading
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No man is useless while he has a friend.

Friend He Man Useless
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Almost Friend He Indispensable
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Liberty Money Pay Price
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Enemy Friends Suppressed Truth
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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Full Happy Kings Number
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Give Giving Love Loving
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