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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. Robert Burns

Bathe Our Adorn Wet Violets

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics Thought Preparation Only Perhaps Which Profession Necessary

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson

Life Become Only Becoming End Capable

Sin Deadly Avarice

I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble rank - I blush not to state it, nor am I sorry - for the profit of others. In short, I am a slave in Christ to a foreign nation for the unspeakable glory of the eternal life which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Saint Patrick

Life Christ Father Sorry Nation Profit Others State Our Sold Our Lord Rank Born Noble Unspeakable Glory Lord Am Foreign Nor According Short Blush Which Eternal Eternal Life Flesh Who Jesus Slave

Some age, others mature. Sean Connery

Age Others Some Mature

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist. Thomas Carlyle

You Parrot Supply Demand Economist Terms Got Teach

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyle

Man Repentance Faults Divine Most Greatest None Acts Conscious

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Thomas Carlyle

Music Angels Well Said Speech

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are. Thomas Carlyle

Me You Man Honor Will Kind Know Show

No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner. Thomas Dewar

Wife Husband Winner Unless Steady He Endure Gambling

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation. Walter Elliot

Silence Conversation Crowd Holiness Desert

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer. William Barclay

Life God Better Cause Father Will Believe Needless Never Longer Also Understand His Hand Child Any May Resent Tear

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. William Drummond

Fool Will Dares He Cannot Bigot Reason Who Slave

To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he shall never receive it. William Wallace

Life Allegiance Shall Never He Him Edward Persecuted Owe Traitor Sovereign Cannot Whilst Body Homage Receive Received

I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls, courted concealment and were too much afraid of losing their roosts to leave them for such a cause. William Wallace

Myself Day Liberty Cause Losing Too Much Independence Face Country Too Others Some Concealment Like Courted Always Leave Were Owls Afraid While Them Much Asserting

A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself. Alexander Graham Bell

Man Judgment Own Relates Final Himself Should Appeal

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. Alexander Smith

Man Memory Rich Nothing Else Possession He Real His Poor

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. Andrew Carnegie

Son Would Almighty Soon Leave Dollar Curse

A shady business never yields a sunny life. B. C. Forbes

Life Business Sunny Shady Never Yields

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to. B. C. Forbes

Truth Hurt Ought Unless

I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well. Calvin Harris

Angry Anger Sometimes Pretending Perception More Angry Person Like Well Am Than Person Quite Works Actually Playing

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