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Walter Scott

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Fate Happiness Live
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Drink Greatness Vice
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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Change Nature Season Sky
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Deep Evil Late
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Blessing Night Quiet Spirit
And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Born Doubt Reading
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feeling Heaven 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
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
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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Growth Hard Time Plant
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
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Ambition Deep Man Ruin
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Praise Success
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
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night

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