Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
WALTER SCOTTThe willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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