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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Walter Scott

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTT

Dream Equality Light Night
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Man Myself Wake Up
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
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.
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Life Rise Wake Up
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Eduacation Hands Man Worth
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
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
WALTER SCOTT

Freedom Privilege Story
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Hands Heart Sin
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
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
WALTER SCOTT

Age Fame Life Oneself Worth

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