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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Walter Scott

War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Deep Game Lose War
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.
WALTER SCOTT

Life Rise Wake Up
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
WALTER SCOTT

Courage Truth Virtue
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
WALTER SCOTT

Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
WALTER SCOTT

Silence Talk
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTT

Guide Life Perfection Reason
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
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
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
WALTER SCOTT

Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile

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