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Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.
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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.
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The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day.
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...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore.
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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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Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
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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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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.
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The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, to force the way But better had they ne'er been born That read to doubt or read to scorn.
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