We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTWho, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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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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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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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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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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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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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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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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