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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
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Oh, poverty parts good company.
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Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
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For love is heaven and heaven is love.
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Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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Silence, maiden thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.
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Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.
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Give me an honest laugher.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.
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The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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