Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
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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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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
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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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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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November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
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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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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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Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.
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The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
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Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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