Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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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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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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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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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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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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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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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