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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

Walter Scott

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
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!
WALTER SCOTT

Freedom Man Myself Yourself
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
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
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
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
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Heart Heaven Human Spring Tears
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
WALTER SCOTT

Hands Heart Time
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
WALTER SCOTT

Death Deep Perspective Philosophy

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