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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

Walter Scott

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
WALTER SCOTT

Myself Story Truth
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
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
WALTER SCOTT

Life Rise Wake Up
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Courage Death
Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Flower May
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
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
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
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
WALTER SCOTT

Heart Man Poor Religion
One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
WALTER SCOTT

Character Goodness Man
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
WALTER SCOTT

Silence Talk
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Age Time
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTT

Experience Love Marriage Myself See
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
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
WALTER SCOTT

Deserve Himself Man
Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
WALTER SCOTT

Death Deep Perspective Philosophy

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