As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
WALTER SCOTTHe that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Steady of heart and stout of hand.
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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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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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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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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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 man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
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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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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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