The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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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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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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Good Night, Goodnight, Dream.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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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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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 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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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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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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