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Quote by Walter Scott
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – 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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. – Walter Scott

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A sold poem loses half its meaning. – Terri Guillemets

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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We read Robert Brownings poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. – Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. – Joseph Brodsky

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Oh, brethren, be great believers! Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to you. – C.H. Spurgeon

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But in seven weeks it was done, the frontiers decided.
A continent for better or worse divided.
The next day he sailed for England, where he quickly forgot
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