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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

Walter Scott

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
WALTER SCOTT

Character Excellence Existence Strange
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
WALTER SCOTT

Freedom Man Myself Yourself
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
WALTER SCOTT

Deep Friendship
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
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
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
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
WALTER SCOTT

Deal Goodness Love
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
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
WALTER SCOTT

Honesty Myself
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.
WALTER SCOTT

Breathe Deep Repair
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
WALTER SCOTT

Breathe Death Himself Man Soul
The will to do, the soul to dare.
WALTER SCOTT

Dare Inspirational One Liner Soul Willing
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
WALTER SCOTT

Heart Man Poor Religion
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
WALTER SCOTT

Born Fight Man Myself Way World
November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
WALTER SCOTT

Change Nature Season Sky

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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