“As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“The will to do, the soul to dare.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“But with morning cool repentance came.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“Look back, and smile at perils past.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“Death — the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.”
Sir Walter Scott
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“Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.”
Sir Walter Scott
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