From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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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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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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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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As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
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Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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