Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
WALTER SCOTTI 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.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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