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Walter Scott

Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
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
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Death Deep Perspective Philosophy
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Heaven Love Man
Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Deep Heart Lose World
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Darkness Friendship Hard Time True
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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Bright Fear Hope
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
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Goodness Mortal Poor Wine
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
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

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