Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime … - Walter Scott - Quotesmemo.com

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I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

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Walter Scott

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

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