A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
WALTER SCOTTWho, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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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?
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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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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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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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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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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Treason seldom dwells with courage.
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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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