From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTHail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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