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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.

Walter Scott

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
WALTER SCOTT

Rise Yourself
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Himself Right Tree
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
WALTER SCOTT

Food Hell Revenge
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
WALTER SCOTT

Animal Man Yourself
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
WALTER SCOTT

Man Myself Wake Up
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
WALTER SCOTT

Change Nature Season Sky
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
WALTER SCOTT

Escape Resistance
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.
WALTER SCOTT

Mindset People Reality Strange
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
WALTER SCOTT

Hands Heart Time
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
WALTER SCOTT

Better History Purpose Reading
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?
WALTER SCOTT

Animal Death Dog Live Misery Myself
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
WALTER SCOTT

Character Excellence Existence Strange
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
WALTER SCOTT

Feeling Heaven Mortal
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
WALTER SCOTT

Heart Myself Tears

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