Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
WALTER SCOTTOne or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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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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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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