We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTCome he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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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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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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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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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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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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