Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
WALTER SCOTTEach age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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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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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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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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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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