Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
WALTER SCOTTWhen true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
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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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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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