Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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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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I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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