From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTAs long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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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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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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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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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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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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