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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/6555/">Quotes by <em>Scott, Sir Walter</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."

Scott, Sir Walter · Adversity · 0 fans >>
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"Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer."

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"Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last."

Scott, Sir Walter · Death and Dying · 2 fans >>
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"Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

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"Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening."

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"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."

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"If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once."

Scott, Sir Walter · Discipline · 1 fans >>
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"There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial."

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"The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."

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"If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others."

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