The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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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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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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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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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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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