Tag: Walter Scott
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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
Walter Scott
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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