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

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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

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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.

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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: August 15th, 1771

Died: September 21st, 1832

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