The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
WALTER SCOTTWelcome as the flowers in May.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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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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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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