Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
WALTER SCOTTIs death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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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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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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