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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.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.
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The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
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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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For Love will still be lord of all.
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Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Hurry no man's cattle you may come to own a donkey yourself
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Blud's thicker than water.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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