Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
WALTER SCOTTReal valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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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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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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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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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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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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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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