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Walter Scott

And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
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
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
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
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
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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Joy Nature Religious
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Hands Heart Time
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
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
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
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Myself Story Truth
Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Past Smile
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.

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