Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
WALTER SCOTTLove rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
More Walter Scott Quotes
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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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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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.
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Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.
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One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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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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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 cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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