He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
WALTER SCOTTA glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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