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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.

Walter Scott

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Honesty Myself
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Beginning Himself
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.
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Freedom Privilege Story
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
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
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Deep Friendship
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
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
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
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
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Beyond Control Fortune Mindset Mortal
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Coward Dare Fight Nation

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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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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