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Baronet Scott Inspirational Quotes (290)

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Chess is a sad waste of brains.
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Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
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A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.
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Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.
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Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
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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.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
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Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, Under the willow.
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We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
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Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.
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Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
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The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy.
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The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose When next the summer breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
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O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?
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It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.
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Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes front clay, Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.
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And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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