Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
WALTER SCOTTAnd better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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 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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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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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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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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