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Walter Scott

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
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
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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Drink Greatness Habit Kind
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
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
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.

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