Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
WALTER SCOTTFrom my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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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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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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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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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.
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