One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
WALTER SCOTTCaution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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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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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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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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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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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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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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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.
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