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Quote by Walter Scott
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little mean

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 thats broken! – Walter Scott

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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. – 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

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To always be 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. – Walter Scott

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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music. – Andy Summers

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Theres always something to suggest that youll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving. – Phylicia Rashad

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All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on. – Gerry Cooney

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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name – and moving on. – Emile M. Cioran

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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. – Virginia Woolf

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The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. – Marianne Williamson

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