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Teach you 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. ↗

— Walter Scott

#ask #cannot #cease #did #each

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. ↗

— Walter Scott

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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. ↗

— Walter Scott

#autumn #blossoms #borne #fruit #look

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. ↗

— Walter Scott

#alone #companions #doubly #feel #gone

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. ↗

— Walter Scott

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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. ↗

— Walter Scott

#greatness #incompatible #most #vices

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. ↗

— Walter Scott

#any #between #desired #exercising #eyes

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

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'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ↗

— Walter Scott

#come #coming #eye #know #look