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Our time is like our money; when we change a guinea the shillings escape as things of small account; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes.

– Sir Walter Scott

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The will to do, the soul to dare.

– Sir Walter Scott

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To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.

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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

– Sir Walter Scott

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Look back, and smile on perils past.

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To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

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We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

– Sir Walter Scott

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Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.

– Sir Walter Scott

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