As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
WALTER SCOTTI cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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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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The will to do, the soul to dare.
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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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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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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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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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Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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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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