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Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Sir Walter Scott Quotes ~
« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2015, 11:40:41 AM »
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2015, 11:41:14 AM »
The chain of friendship however bright does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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« Reply #17 on: September 30, 2015, 11:41:48 AM »
Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!
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« Reply #18 on: September 30, 2015, 11:42:22 AM »
I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right but when I am a little in the wrong.
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« Reply #19 on: September 30, 2015, 11:42:58 AM »
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.
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« Reply #20 on: September 30, 2015, 11:43:31 AM »
It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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« Reply #21 on: September 30, 2015, 11:44:09 AM »
True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.
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« Reply #22 on: September 30, 2015, 11:44:43 AM »
O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!
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« Reply #23 on: September 30, 2015, 11:45:14 AM »
Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.
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« Reply #24 on: September 30, 2015, 11:45:48 AM »
It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.
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« Reply #25 on: September 30, 2015, 11:46:22 AM »
O Caledonia! stern and wild Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
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« Reply #26 on: September 30, 2015, 11:46:58 AM »
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 man; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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