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Walter Scott

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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Escape Resistance
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Heart Man Poor Religion
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Animal Man Yourself
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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Deserve Himself Man
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
Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Break Law Myself Word
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Experience Love Marriage Myself See
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Rise Yourself
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Break Deep See
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
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
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
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
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Death Fast Himself
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Silence Talk
Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Dream Night
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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Character Goodness Man
Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Joy One Liner Peace Wake Up
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
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible

Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.

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